Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past : : A New Approach to Photography / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Image ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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