Constructing Imperial Berlin - Photography and the Metropolis Paeslack MiriamPaperback / softback
How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image--and one another--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesSince the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once visually…
Specifikacia Constructing Imperial Berlin - Photography and the Metropolis Paeslack MiriamPaperback / softback
How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image--and one another--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesSince the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once visually epitomized a divided Europe has thrived in the international spotlight as an image of reunified statehood and urbanity. Yet research on Berlin's past has focused on the interwar years of the Weimar Republic or the Cold War era, with much less attention to the crucial Imperial years between 1871 and 1918.Constructing Imperial Berlin is the first book to critically assess, contextualize, and frame urban and architectural photographs of that era. Berlin, as it was pronounced Germany's capital in 1871, was fraught with questions that had previously beset Paris and London. How was urban expansion and transformation to be absorbed? What was the city's