Sport and Photography in the United States of America between the World Wars. A History of Modern Bodies as a Cultural History of the Political

该项目位于三个史学研究领域的交叉点。两次世界大战之间美国政治的文化史，体育史作为现代身体史的概念，以及加强历史研究视觉来源作用的尝试。一个主要目标是强调通过分析体育摄影作为文化史所获得的附加价值。作为政治的文化史，该项目旨在展示谁能够并被允许分享政治，经济，社会和文化资源，以参与社会。在世纪上半叶，建立和维护霸权常常被转化为身体政治，这既是肯定的，也是批判的。体育运动的摄影表现是这些社会争议中的生产要素。因此，它们对个人和社会群体产生了真实的影响。关于性别、种族、阶级、年龄或残疾的观念绝不是以这种方式创造、传播和挪用的，该项目的关键点是美国作为现代国家的自我认知。关于运动中的人体的想法，在当代围绕现代性概念的辩论中占据了突出地位。摄影技术，现在技术先进，在日常生活中变得越来越明显，成为这些辩论中的一个中心和积极意义增强元素，因为它本身的现代吸引力与做和看体育运动的现代性概念有关。正如苏珊·桑塔格（Susan Sontag）所说，如果拍照首先确立了物体的相关性，那么两次世界大战之间体育摄影的数量之多就凸显了体育的社会文化重要性。因此，该项目旨在分析体育摄影在三个相互关联的领域中的功能：应用科学，新闻摄影和广告摄影，以及拍摄体育照片的私人摄影师。

This project is located at the intersection of three historiographical research fields. A cultural history of the political in the USA between the world wars, the concept of sports history as a history of modern bodies, and the attempts to strengthen the role of visual sources for historical research. A main objective will be to emphasize the additional value gained by analyzing sports photography as cultural history.As a cultural history of the political, the project aims at demonstrating who was able and allowed to share political, economic, social and cultural resources in order to participate in society. In the first half of the 20th century, establishing and maintaining hegemony oftentimes translated into body politics, both affirmative and critical. Photographic representations of sports were productive elements in these social controversies. As such they had real effects for individuals and social groups. Ideas about gender, race, class, age or disability were not the least created, transmitted and appropriated this way.The pivotal point of the project is the self-perception of the United States as being modern. Ideas about human bodies in motion, practicing sports, figured prominently in contemporary debates revolving around that notion of modernity. The technology of photography, now technically advanced and becoming increasingly visible in everyday life, became a central and actively meaning enhancing element in these debates for its own modern appeal was related to a concept of modernity associated with both doing and watching sports. And if the act of taking pictures first of all establishes the relevance of the object, as Susan Sontag stated, the sheer quantity of sports photography in the interwar years underscores the socio-cultural importance of sports. The project thus aims to analyze this function of sports photography in three interrelated fields: in applied sciences, in press photography and advertising photography, and among private photographers taking sports pictures.