The centrality of women to the visual culture of Weimar Germany as both photographers and photographed will be explored in this lecture by Dr Dorothy Rowe, Senior Lecture in the History of Art at the University of Bristol. A particular focus will be on the avant-garde artistic networks in Cologne during the 1920s, and, in particular, on the photographic practices of August Sander and Hannes Maria Flach in their representation of women as both the subjects and objects of photographic discourse.

Mighty Hands (1936), by Władysław Bednarczuk © National Museum in Wrocław