Janina Struk

Photographing the Holocaust

Interpretations of the Evidence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 172mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781860645464
• ISBN-10: 1860645461
• Artikelnr.: 22055681

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust were photographed
more intensively than any others, before or since. These images have been
subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored,
suppressed, distorted and above all exploited for propaganda purposes or
political interest. Struk suggests that their provenance - whether taken by
the Nazis or their collaborators or by the Jews themselves, their
sympathisers and the resistance movements in the occupied territories; or
by the Allied forces at the end of the war - has been seen as of secondary
importance to their meaning. She recounts the history of the use and abuse
of Holocaust photographs and asks whether or not these images can serve as
true representations of the events they depict. The questions explored are
illustrated with a wide range of photographs, including a number never
published before.