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THE ETHICS OF SEEING: 20TH CENTURY GERMAN DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY RECONSIDEREDConference at the German Historical Institute London, May 23-25, 2013Recent years have witnessed new interest among historians to integratevisual sources and changing modes of visual perception into their work.While the presence of visual sources in mainstream monographs was quitecommon in 19th century historiography, this tendency dropped off markedlyover the course of the 20th century.   In the last fifteen years or so,however, historians working in various contexts have begun to rethinkhistorical periods – and history-making itself – through the lens ofvisual history as a rich field of scholarly inquiry in its own right.But to date this burgeoning field associated with the ‘visual turn’largely exists as a set of isolated studies that rarely relate to oneanother; the proposed conference is an effort to bring together a range ofscholars in the field to explore the interface of visuality and history in20th century Germany.  Of central consideration here is how and whyphotographic images have shaped popular memories and understanding of keyhistorical events over the last century; in relation to German history,this is certainly evident with the both world wars, the 1923 Inflation,the pageantry surrounding the Third Reich, the Holocaust, Nazi defeat,divided Berlin, 1968, the 1972 Olympics as well as the dismantling of theBerlin Wall in 1989.Deadline: 15 January 2012&#62;&#62; Full CfP