Berkowitz, Michael; (2022) The art market in photography: modernity, Jews, and Wiedergutmachung? In: Lerner, Paul and Spiekermann, Uwe and Schenderlein, Anne, (eds.) Jewish Consumer Cultures in 19th and 20th century Europe and America. (pp. 253-272). Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland.

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Although there are many reflections about the art market for photography, there is little archival-based history. Through ongoing work on the Jewish engagement with photography, this chapter explores the purchase of individual photographs as artwork as well as the acquisition of entire collections, mainly the Gernsheim Collection (University of Texas and Riess-Engelhorn Museum) and the Breitenbach Collection (Munich). After 1945, West German and Austrian museums and archives also fueled the art market for photography by recognizing that Jewish photographers expelled from Nazi Europe represented a cultural treasure that might be restored to Central Europe. The discovery of this cohort, so to speak, also led to increasing valuing of photographs, generally, as German institutions sought and paid high prices for work by Jews and of Jewish interest.

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