Colonising Visions: A Physiognomy of Face and Place in Erich Retzlaff’s Book ‘Länder und Völker an der Donau: Rumänien, Bulgarien, Ungarn, Kroatien’

Christopher Webster

Colonising Visions: A Physiognomy of Face and Place in Erich Retzlaff’s Book ‘Länder und Völker an der Donau: Rumänien, Bulgarien, Ungarn, Kroatien’

Christopher Webster

School of Art

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An article exploring Erich Retzlaff's (1899-1993) photographic journey along the Danube in the 1940s. The article explores his use of colour photography and the fact that Retzlaff received support from the Nazi regime to travel. The journey tied into his passion for physiognomy (in this case often a geographic physiognomy) as a visual manifestations of Germanic autarky in Germany’s pan-regions. This is a timely examination of the seemingly innocuous mode of travel photography becoming an incisive populist tool of mass propaganda.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	66 - 77
Number of pages	11
Journal	PhotoResearcher
Issue number	No.23
Publication status	Published - 01 Apr 2015

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Travel Photography
Third Reich
Erich Retzlaff
Physiognomy
Race science
Geopolitics

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Colonising Visions: A Physiognomy of Face and Place in Erich Retzlaff’s Book ‘Länder und Völker an der Donau: Rumänien, Bulgarien, Ungarn, Kroatien’

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