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Agfa Colour Plate Commercial Release Timeline: Agfa Colour Plate (Agfa-Farbenplatte, 1916-1923), New Agfa Colour Plate (Neue Agfa-Farbenplatte, 1923-1932), Agfacolor Plate (Agfacolor-Platte, 1932-1940), Agfacolor Ultra plate (Agfacolor Ultra-Platte, 1936-1940).","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"DOP","id":"THES291628"},"images":["2022NF3899"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"MB10","shelf":"SH6","box":"CAX5"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Norway","id":"x29052"},"association":{"text":"Photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"23/08/1929","earliest":"1929-08-23","latest":"1929-08-23"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"NCOL.288-2024","id":"O1783148"},"association":"Non-collection object"},{"object":{"text":"NCOL.289-2024","id":"O1783149"},"association":"Non-collection object"},{"object":{"text":"NCOL.290-2024","id":"O1783150"},"association":"Non-collection object"},{"object":{"text":"NCOL.291-2024","id":"O1783151"},"association":"Non-collection object"},{"object":{"text":"NCOL.292-2024","id":"O1783152"},"association":"Non-collection object"}],"creditLine":"Gift of Colin Axon","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"12","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Geiranger-Fjord Merok 23 viii 29","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Kurt von Holleben (1894-1947) was an innovator in the field of early colour photographic process development whose work was not known publicly until the collection was rediscovered in 2013 by private collector Colin Axon. From 1925 to 1939, von Holleben worked as the head of the Agfa Colour Screen Research Group. Notably, von Holleben led a team of Agfa employees at the 1936 Winter and Summer Olympic Games, documenting the events in colour.\r\n\r\nThe collection of von Holleben’s photographs at the V&A captures everyday life in interwar Nazi Germany. If it were not for the occasional swastika in the background, they look deceptively normal. In fact, they provide insight into a society which the Nazis had radically reshaped in the name of their racist ideology. These photographs show how ordinary Germans went about their lives whilst the lives of those who were excluded from this racially defined ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ (racial community) were being destroyed.\r\n\r\nPhotography was used as an ideological tool by the Nazi party to encourage citizens to voluntarily participate in the collective act of constructing a new image of Germany. This interwar visual language in Germany is full of deliberate choices which point back to the racially founded idea of Volksgemeinschaft. These deliberate choices are sometimes quiet and unsuspecting but are deeply imbued with a Nationalist rhetoric which lives in the photograph’s context.\r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph by Dr. Kurt von Holleben titled, 'Geiranger-Fjord Merok', 1929, New Agfa Colour.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Norway","id":"x29052"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["PH.335-2022"],"accessionNumberNum":"335","accessionNumberPrefix":"PH","accessionYear":2022,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"previous owner's number","id":"THES57329"},"number":"CDA/073/002"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2022-02-24","availableToBook":false}}