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Catalogue >Fine Art >  General >  Pictures of Krupp: Photography and History in the Industrial Age Pictures of Krupp: Photography and History in the Industrial Age This volume, written by historians and specialists in the history of photography, opens up a unique collection of photographs: the resource constituted by the Historical Archive of the firm of Friedrich Krupp in Essen. It affords an inside view of this worldwide company up to the outbreak of World War I, while at the same time being an excellent example of the use of the medium of photography as a historical source. 301 x 235 mm,384 pages, 354 mono illustrations, hardback ISBN 0 85667 580 6 | Retail price £35.00  Online price: £24.50 / €36.75 The book first introduces us to the business and social history of this worldwide company. The almost unbroken photographic documentation is due first and foremost to the great interest taken in photographic records by Alfred Krupp, one of the firm's pioneers. Other contributions are devoted to the 'faces of the workforce' and photography as a source for the history of labour and technology, the life of the 'Kruppians' outside the factory gates, and relations between the town of Essen and the Krupp factories. As well as the industrial architecture of the Krupp factories, the role played by Krupp in politics is evaluated in so far as it is documented in pictorial records. Another group of contributions is devoted to the Krupps' family life: the tension between the need to present an imposing image to the outside world, and the family intimacy of an upper middle-class family. Finally, photography as the main source of the volume is treated systematically: '"factory photography' is revealed as a source category in its own right. The editor, Klaus Tenfelde, b. 1944, has been Professor of Social History and Social Movements since 1995, and runs the Institute for Social Movements, a central institute of the Ruhr University in Bochum. He is also president of the committee for the Library of the Ruhr District Foundation and has published many books and articles, primarily on the social history of the 19th and 20th century.