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• 1 2018-07-29T04:18:33-07:00 Step 1: "Stop Reading! Look!"* 14 gallery 2018-09-17T05:22:11-07:00 * (Johannes Molzahn, typographer, 1928)

  ". . . because once you've studied the pictures for a while, they begin to speak. The people in the pictures hold still - so patiently, that you can study them at your leisure. And when you're wholly inside the picture, the people speak."  (Kurt Tucholsky, "Foreword" GG)

  Pictured above are photo 1, photo 2 and photo 3 that Tucholsky and Heartfield included in GG's second preface: 
  "Foreword: or, it is impossible to write captions for photographs" 

  Step 1: Spend about 20-30 seconds with each photograph.
  Be patient! Take your time!
  
  Try to answer these questions for each photograph:

  1. Looking at these photographs: What do you notice?
  2. Who is in those photographs?
  3. Are they types or individuals? 
  4. In which direction are the depicted persons looking?
  5. What are they looking at?

  Once you have answered these questions for all three photographs, move on to Step 2.

• 1 2018-07-29T04:20:11-07:00 Step 2: Look again! 4 gallery 2021-07-15T06:31:26-07:00

  Step 2: Look again at the three photographs.

  Use your mouse or touchpad to hover over the images. Annotations will pop up and tell you more about what you see. 
  Have you noticed everything during Step 1? 
  
  All three photographs included in "Vorrede" depict various group settings. 
  • The first photograph shows four middle-aged men, wearing light summer clothing, and two women, wearing black bathing suits.
  • While this photograph is capturing a time of leisure, the second photo included in the “Vorrede” shows a group of press photographers at work. 
  • The last photograph in the “Vorrede” is again a staged one.