Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past : : A New Approach to Photography / / Silke Helmerdig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Helmerdig, Silke,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Image ; 101
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction. “After Auschwitz” – photography and the principle of hope --; Chapter 1. Photography and historiography --; Chapter 2. Post-War Germany and its remembrance of the Holocaust --; Chapter 3. The representation of absence in photography --; Chapter 4: Epilogue. Photography: A future subjunctive for the past --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgements
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839436240; 9783110701005; 9783110485103; 9783110485332; 9783110701012; 9783110489842; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839436240?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Silke Helmerdig.

According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment.Instead of counting on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of "what has been", Silke Helmerdig suggests a different approach to photography: an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of "what could be, if", allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past.