Germany: The New Photography 1927-33

This book is a source document of essays written about German photography between 1927 (not 1972 as the Amazon listing indicates) and 1927 by the photographers, essayists, and observers of photography during that period. The years 1927-1933 are the last half of the Weimar Republic, a period of extremes in artistic and political expression. Expressionism, New Objectivity, and Bauhaus/Functionalism contend while the KPD (Communists), SPD (Social Democrats, and Nazis (National Socialists) contend increasing physically in the streets. For the most part the essays in this volume do not delve into these contemporary issues, but discuss and often argue on a higher philosophical plane. The subtitle best describes this book: "Documents and essays selected and edited by David Mellor". The collection was published by the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1978.