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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Konopka, Nicole K. |
| Title, Analytic | Finding an Image of the Past: Traces of 19th Century German Immigrants in Today's USA = Auf der Suche nach Bildern: Die Spuren deutscher Auswanderer in den heutigen USA |
| Title, Monographic | Bild Bewegung. Bilder von Migration, Migration von Bildern |
| Place of Publication | Rostock, Germany |
| Publisher | Universitaetsdruckerei Rostock |
| Date of Publication | 2009 |
| Location in Work | 60-91, ill. |
| Abstract | My primary interest lay in the tracking and recording of visual traces of German-American immigrants. . . Several questions dominated this documentation of cultural contact: to what extent are cliches and conventional images consciously and unconsciously depicted in everyday life? How may the photographic gaze be used to (re-)shape the imagination of an audience? Does the medium of photography serve, or subversively undermine this purpose? Photographs include a landscape of Mazomanie County, Wisconsin; Prospect Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; St. John's Lutheran Church, Clayton County, Iowa; Amana Colonies, Iowa; Old Town, Chicago, Illinois; Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; German Fest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Over the Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio. |
| Notes | Ein Photoprojekt von Mitgliedern des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs "Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs." Donated by Nicole Konopka. |
| Call Number | MKI P2009-6 |
| MKI Terms | German Americans/ Cultural influence/ America/ National characteristics, American -- Public opinion, German |