This book presents the photo publications of Dr. Paul Wolff and Alfred Tritschler revealing
both their extensive artistic skills and business acumen. Wolff and Tritschler's versatile
approach encompassed industrial reportages genre pictures news coverage advertising
campaigns and even films. In this volume their more than 1 000 known published works and many
magazine contributions are gathered and illustrated in color for the first time. Texts drawing
on extensive primary sources explore Wolff and Tritschler's most important creations and
reconstruct the history of their company. We see just how markedly the contexts for the
production and consumption of photography changed between the Weimar Republic and Third Reich
and how Wolff and Tritschler exemplify the pivotal role which outstanding individuals played
within this history. Their journalistic activities developed within the larger expansion of
photographic illustration their success was closely linked to the advancement of media
reception and its use in political policies. Wolff and Tritschler's photo publications take on
a further political meaning-also in terms of National Socialist ideology-in the context of
their concrete usage. This book's focus on their entire oeuvre particularly the little seen
early and late output makes it the most comprehensive evaluation of Wolff and Tritschler's
multifaceted work to date.
