Ian Jeffrey taught in the art department of Goldsmiths College at the University of London during the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1990s he lectured at the Central European University in Prague. In 1975 he organized and curated an exhibition of British photography, The Real Thing: An Anthology of British Photographs, 1840-1950, for the Arts Council of Great Britain. The same year Thames & Hudson published his Photography: A Concise History. In the 1980s he wrote for Alan Ross's London Magazine. In 1999 he assembled and introduced Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography for the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television. He wrote The Photo Book for Phaidon in 1997, and expanded it in 2014. In 2008 Abrams, Ludion, Schirmer/Mosel and Thames & Hudson published his How to Read a Photograph. 'Fatal Praise: John Ruskin and the Daguerreotype' appeared in John Ruskin: Artist and Observer, prepared in 2014 by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, which also published his article 'Bohemian Odyssey: Josef Sudek's Publishing Projects' in a Sudek catalogue of 2016.
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FOREWORD . PREFACE . INTRODUCTION . 1 SOUNDSCAPES . 2 VOLKSDEUTSCHE IN POLAND . 3 POLES AND JEWS . 4 LOGISTICS . 5 TRAVELS IN REAL POLAND . 6 RESTPOLEN . 7 FORTUNES OF WAR . 8 VOLKSDEUTSCHE IN THE BALKANS . 9 EMBLEMS AND INSIGNIA . 10 WINSTON CHURCHILL . 11 HITLER AT LARGE . 12 DUNKIRK . 13 TOMMIES . 14 LES SÉNÉGAL AIS . 15 OPERATION SEALION . 16 TOUR DE FRANCE . 17 BRAND NAMES . 18 RUINS . 19 CONQUERORS . 20 FIGHTER ACES . 21 KIDS . 22 STAFF CARS . 23 WEAPONS INSPECTION . 24 VORMARSCH . 25 ASSASSINATION . 26 TARNOPOL . 27 SAVAGERY . 28 CONTEMPLATION . 29 REAL LIFE . 30 EPIC EVENTS . 31 A HEAVENLY CITY . 32 COMRADESHIP . 33 PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE . 34 TIME FRAMES . 35 NEW TOPOGRAPHICS . 36 METAPHYSICAL ART . 37 HORSES AND CATTLE . 38 SITUATION COMEDY . 39 ARRANGEMENTS . 40 HAPPENINGS . 41 CURIOSITIES . 42 ABSURDITIES . 43 MUD . 44 PORTRAITS . 45 FAMILY LIFE IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE . 46 COMRADES . 47 ROUTINES . 48 THE OUTSIDER . 49 ARMY TRADES AND SKILLS . 50 AN OLD SOLDIER . 51 TANK LIFE . 52 GRAVES AND BURIALS . 53 LIFE AND DEATH . 54 FLINTENWEIBER . 55 COMMISSARS . 56 JEWS AND PARTISANS . 57 VICTIMS . 58 CAPTIVES . 59 THE OUTER LIMITS . 60 WASTELANDS . 61 LEADERS . 62 STALINGRAD . 63 CHARACTER STUDIES . 64 OPPOSITION . 65 A NEW GENERATION . 66 THE ENDGAME . 67 RETREAT . 68 FINALE IN BERLIN . BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS . BIOGRAPHIES . ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . IMAGE CAPTIONS AND ALBUM NUMBERS . INDEX . MAPS
