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

这个项目位于三个史学研究领域的交汇处。在两次世界大战之间的美国政治文化史，体育历史作为现代身体的历史的概念，并试图加强历史研究的视觉资源的作用。主要目的是强调通过分析体育摄影作为文化史所获得的附加价值。作为一部政治文化史，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20世纪上半叶，霸权的建立和维持往往转化为身体政治，既有肯定的，也有批判的。体育的摄影表现是这些社会争议的生产要素。因此，它们对个人和社会群体产生了真正的影响。关于性别、种族、阶级、年龄或残疾的观念都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、从事体育运动的想法，在围绕现代性概念的当代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，成为这些辩论的中心和积极的意义增强因素，因为它自己的现代吸引力与现代性概念相关，与运动和观看运动有关。正如苏珊·桑塔格（Susan Sontag）所说，如果拍照的行为首先确立了物体的相关性，那么在两次世界大战之间的岁月里，体育摄影的绝对数量强调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作用：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.