Image Warriors and Images of War: War Photographers as Heroes and Hero Makers in the Second World War (D10*)

该项目将利用第二次世界大战中的摄影来研究位于政治与媒体，军事和无处不在的有组织暴力之间的英雄现象。自1939年至1940年，战地摄影师被风格化为英雄战士的新模式，用他们的照片创造英雄形象。在这个项目的背景下写的论文的中心的英雄和英雄制造者是德国宣传公司的摄影师。该专题论文将由项目负责人撰写，将探讨为什么德国战地摄影师与士兵相比，在20世纪70年代之前的几十年里没有失去吸引力。

The project will use photography in the Second World War to study a phenomenon of the heroic located at the interface between politics and the media, the military, and omnipresent organized violence. Since 1939/40, war photographers have been stylized into a new model of the heroic warrior, creating heroic images themselves with their photos. The heroes and hero makers at the centre of the dissertation to be written within the context of this project are the photographers of the German propaganda companies. The monograph to be written by the project leader will address the question of why German war photographers, in contrast to soldiers, did not lose their attractive power in the decades leading up to the 1970s.