Photographing the Holocaust

Interpretations of the Evidence
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-71892-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

Atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust were photographed more intensely that any before. In the time since the images were taken they have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and above all exploited for propaganda purposes. With the use of many photographs, including some never before seen, this book traces the history of this process and asks whether the images can be true representations of the events they were depicting. Yet their provenance, Janina Struk argues, has been less important that the uses to which a wide range of political interests has put them, from the desperate attempts of the war-time underground to provide hard evidence of the death camps to the memorial museums of Europe, the US and Israel today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Struk, Janina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Photograph from the Archives 1. Photography and National Socialism 1933-39 2. Photographs as Evidence 3. Armed with a Camera 4. Cameras in the Ghettos 5. Cameras in the Camps 6. Liberations 7. Constructing the Post-war Memory: 'Don't Mention the Jews' 8. Commercializing the Holocaust: 'There's No Business Like Shoah Business' 9. Interpretations of the Evidence 10. Dying for Eternity

Über Autor(innen)

Janina Struk is a freelance photographer and writer. She has been a senior lecturer in photography at the University of Westminster in London.