All at War: Photography by German Soldiers 1939-45
Ian Jeffrey
Bone Idle and Ludion
English
Text by Ian Jeffrey
Hardcover
367 pages
252 x 295 mm
2020
ISBN 9789493039438
In September 1939, thousands of German soldiers were turned loose on Poland. In 1940, they descended on Holland, Belgium and France. In 1941, they went to the Balkans and then to the USSR. Armed with Leica and Rolleiflex cameras, some of these soldiers were officially commissioned as photographers, while others were asked by their commanders to snap records of events. Among them were trainees who knew about the Bauhaus, and other, older men who could remember Weimar. Some excelled at formal portraiture, others were storytellers, stylists or humanists who wept at what they saw. The style and content of their work changed along with the collective mood after 1942, a change that is discernible in the photographs themselves.
Celebrated author and art historian Ian Jeffrey, author of How to Read a Photograph and The Photography Book – has trawled through these albums, picking out the most compelling of these works to create an intimate record of anonymous lives experiencing the unprecedented.
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About the Author
Ian Jeffrey is a writer and art historian. He is the author of several illustrated books on the history of photography.
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About the Publisher
Established in 2016, Bone Idle is the publishing arm of one of the world’s most important private art collections, publishing uniquely conceived, beautifully produced, and rigorous art, photography, and creative non-fiction titles on a wide range of subjects. Bone Idle books draw on original research, making each one a definitive contribution to scholarship.
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