Photography

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for photography. The discovery in 1952 by East …. his views of photography as a “social art form” …. art and photography critic John Berger to pore …

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Photography
As a young man in Germany
during the Thirties, Gerhard M.
was an amateur photographer who preserved
his work in a photo album. In 1941, when he
was sent to the Eastern Front as a German
soldier, he took along a camera to record his
combat experiences in the Soviet Union.
Based on his wartime diary and photo album,
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER
recounts Gerhard M.’s
experiences with his unit,
which was engaged in
“retaliatory measures in
captured areas.” Eager to
document his wartime exploits,
Gerhard took numerous photos,
including both quickly-recorded
snapshots and carefully
composed portraits His subjects included
fellow soldiers, Soviet prisoners and other
civilian victims of the war, the German army’s
expropriation of livestock and other food supplies
from the local populace, and a temporary
leave spent happily in Berlin with his fiancée.
After the war, as a citizen of the German
Democratic Republic and a dues-paying member
of the Soviet-German Friendship Society,
Gerhard M. came to regret his enthusiasm
for photography. The discovery in 1952 by East
German Communist authorities of his incriminating
diary and photo album, replete with
horrific images of executions…