Department of Art History: ‘Photography and the Ministry for State Security in the GDR’ – School of Literature, Art and Media

Department of Art History: ‘Photography and the Ministry for State Security in the GDR’

Donna Brett: The Business of Photography and the Ministry for State Security in the GDR   The Ministry for State Security for the German Democratic Republic (the Stasi), established a mass-surveillance machine that recorded the everyday activities of its citizens that took the form of documents, audio recordings, moving footage, and approximately two million photographs. The function of Stasi … Continue reading Department of Art History: ‘Photography and the Ministry for State Security in the GDR’