Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.

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Foreword / Eric Kurlander -- Introduction. Editor's Introduction / Christopher Webster -- Photo Lessons: Teaching Physiognomy during the Weimar Republic / Pepper Stetler -- State. 1. Dark Sky, White Costumes: The Janus State of Modern Photography in Germany 1933-1945 / Rolf Sachsse -- Leaders. 2. 'The Deepest Well of German Life': Hierarchy, Physiognomy and the Imperative of Leadership in Erich Retzlaff's Portraits of the National Socialist Elite / Christopher Webster -- Workers. 3. The Timeless Imprint of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen's Das deutsche Volksgesicht (Face of the German Race) / Andrés Mario Zervigón -- 4. Heimat. Photography, Heimat, Ideology / Ulrich Hägele -- Myth. 5. 'Transmissions from an Extrasensory World' -- Ethnos and Mysticism in the Photographic Nexus / Christopher Webster -- Science. 6. Science and Ideology: Photographic 'Economies of Demonstration' in Racial Science / Amos Morris Reich -- Conclusion / Christopher Webster.

The volume explores, through photographic reproductions and accompanying analysis, diverse aspects of photography during the Third Reich, ranging from the influence of Modernism, the qualitative effect of propaganda photography, and the utilisation of technology such as colour film, to the photograph as ideological metaphor. With an emphasis on the idealised representation of the German body and the role of physiognomy within this representation, the book examines how selected photographers created and developed a visual myth of the 'master race' and its antitheses under the auspices of the Nationalist Socialist state.

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