Grief: the biography of a Holocaust photograph
Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph presents never-before-seen images and an untold story about a Soviet photographer and his signature image. David Shneer tells the story of how World War II photojournalist Dmitri Baltermants transformed a news photograph of a grieving woman at the first...
| Résumé: | Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph presents never-before-seen images and an untold story about a Soviet photographer and his signature image. David Shneer tells the story of how World War II photojournalist Dmitri Baltermants transformed a news photograph of a grieving woman at the first liberation of a German mass atrocity site into a transcendentally human tragedy that today appears in Holocaust archives and art museums around the world. Cover -- Grief -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Introducing Grief -- 1. The Making of a Soviet War Photographer and the German Occupation of Kerch -- 2. Witnessing Grief: The First Reports of Genocide -- 3. The Aftermath of Grief -- 4. Producing and Displaying Grief -- 5. Valuing Grief -- 6. How Grief Became a Commodity -- 7. Seeing the Holocaust in Grief -- Epilogue -- Gratitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0190923822 |