Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine illustration. Pictures assumed a narrative life of their own. Photographers were inspired by the analytical vision of abstract art and even more by the use of multiple perspectives in movies. Photography retained its enormous claim to objectivity in recording the world, but personal vision gained a new importance. German critics summed up the rapid evolution with the term Foto- auge (photo-eye), or photography as a mechanical form of seeing...
...coincidentally, by the late 1920s German publications were leaders in that pursuit. The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, or BIZ, boosted circulation to 2 million with a new journalistic form, the photo story. Under editor Kurt Korff and publishing director Kurt Safranski, anywhere from two to five pages of BIZ, heavily dappled with photos, were devoted to a single topic: the daily routine at a Trappist monastery, the drama of a parachute jump. BIZ, London's Picture Post (edited by Stefan Lorant) and the elegant French magazine Vu drew upon a breed of independent artist-photographer, often with one foot in Bohemia...
...brief time of peace, photojournalism waged war against privacy. A decisive weapon appeared in 1924: the Ermanox, a miniature glass-plate camera with a wide-aperture lens. The camera could operate in dim light and without great intrusion. Erich Salomon, a German with a talent for discretion, stalked diplomatic salons and private railway cars with his tripod-held model. In the U.S., a New York Daily News photographer, Tom Howard, strapped a miniature camera to his ankle and violated the mystery of Ruth Snyder's electrocution...
...economic problems, industrial and scientific development. Though the New Forum's ranks are filled with a wide variety of socialists, ranging from doctrinaire Marxists to Western-style Social Democrats, they share the goal of a liberalized East Germany, not a capitalist one. "We are not enemies of the German Democratic Republic or a threat to anyone," says Jens Reich, a molecular biologist who helped found New Forum. "We just want the country to get out of its present crisis...
...German dissenters have moved to center stage, but lack leadership and a clear agenda. -- Shedding Communism, Hungary's ruling party hopes to survive. -- Look! Up in the sky! Glasnost goes bonkers! -- Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez talks about his relationship with...