Ulrich Keller (art historian)

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Ulrich Keller (* 1944 in Göttingen ) is a German art historian and former professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara .

Life

Keller studied art history, archeology and German literature at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin, Vienna, Florence and Munich. As a professor of art history, he taught from 1970 to 1974 at the University of Louisville; from 1982 to 2014 he was Professor of Photo History at the University of California / Santa Barbara. From 1974 to 1977 he was an assistant at the Art History Institute in Florence and from 1977 to 1982 curator at the Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. He has lived in Berlin since 2014.

reception

He is the author of questions of guilt: Belgian underground war and German retribution in August 1914, Paderborn (Schöningh) 2017. The book received mostly negative press reactions due to the gross historical revisionist theses.

Works

Other works include a.

  • The world war of images. Organization, censorship and aesthetics of photo reportage 1914–1918, in: Photo History , Vol. 33, no. 130, 2013, pp. 5–50.
  • Verdun, 1916. The battle of photo reports , in: Photo History, Vol. 33, no. 130, 2013, pp. 51–84.
  • The iconic turn in American political culture: speech performance for the gilded-age picture press , in: Word & Image, Vol. 29, no.1 , Jan. 2013, pp. 1-39, 2013.
  • Photography and Desire: The Triumph of Photo Reportage in the Interwar Media Competition, in: A. Ramsbrock, A. Vowinckel, M. Zierenberg, eds., Photographs in the 20th Century. Dissemination and mediation , Göttingen (Wallstein), 2013, pp. 129–174.
  • The Ultimate Spectacle: A Visual History of the Crimean War . Amsterdam (Gordon and Breach), 2001.
  • The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs. 206 Views Made in 1941 , New York (Dover), 1984 (German translation by Nishen, Berlin, 1987).
  • The Myth of Art Photography: A Sociological Analysis, in: History of Photography , Vol. 8, Oct. 1984, pp. 249-75.
  • The Myth of Art Photography: An Iconographic Analysis, in: History of Photography , Vol. 9, Jan. 1985, pp. 1-38.
  • August Sander. People of the 20th century: portrait photographs 1892–1952 , Munich (Schirmer & Mosel) 1980.
  • The Highway as Habitat: A Roy Stryker Documentation, 1943–1955 , Santa Barbara (University Art Museum), 1985.
  • Equestrian monuments of absolutist princes: state-theoretical requirements and political functions . Munich (Schnell and Steiner), 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Keller: questions of guilt: Belgian underground war and German retaliation in August 1914 . With a foreword by Gerd Krumeich . Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78744-6 .
  2. ↑ Ulrich Keller: Ghosts don't shoot shotguns . In: FAZ from April 11, 2018 ( online ) accessed on April 12, 2018.
  3. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : In 1914 there were Belgian franc tireists in Leuven . In: Welt Online from August 21, 2014. ( Online ) accessed on April 12, 2018.
  4. ↑ Lothar Wieland: Necessary remarks on a superfluous debate . In: TheEuropean of December 22, 2017. ( Online ) Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ Klaus Wiegrefe : Germans and massacres in the First World War - the usual black and white representations are untenable . In: Der Spiegel from November 5, 2017 ( online ). Accessed April 12, 2018.
  6. ↑ Oliver Busch: A renunciation of diplomatic concessions . In: Junge Freiheit, December 10, 2017. ( Online ) Retrieved April 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Ulrich F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen