Photography and Jewish History : : Five Twentieth-Century Cases / / Amos Morris-Reich.
It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as mere illustrations, simple documentations of the events that transpired. Scholars of photography,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Utopia and Photography circa 1900: Albert Kahn and the Archives of the Planet
- Chapter 2. The Boundaries of Photographic Intention: Helmar Lerski’s “Failed” Project
- Chapter 3. Album of an Extinct Race: Eugen Fischer and Photography
- Chapter 4. Photography for Its Own Sake: Robert Frank and The Americans
- Chapter 5. Photography and Rupture: S. An-sky, Solomon Yudovin, and the Documentation of Russian Jewry
- Conclusion. Photography and Democracy
- Notes
- Index