INCONGRUOUS IMAGES: "BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER" THE HOLOCAUST 1
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Exemplaarnummer Plaatscode Signatuur R073663 Ned. Fotomuseum ned. fotomuseum
TitelINCONGRUOUS IMAGES: "BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER" THE HOLOCAUST 1
Auteur
Editie[nummer] 4
[jaargang] 48
[tijdschrift; titel] History and Theory
[tijdschrift; maand] december
[tijdschrift; pagina] 9-25
Jaar van uitgave2009
Materiaalartikel
DocumenttypeArtikel
Elektronisch document
http://fotomuseum.adlibhosting.com/texts/j_1468-2303_2009_00514_[k].pdf
TrefwoordGeschiedenis en fotografie, Holocaust, Foto als historisch document, Geschiedenis van de straatfotografie, digitaal beschikbaar
Samenvatting
Abstract:
When historians, archivists, and museologists turn to Eastern European photos from family albums or collections — for example, photos from the decades preceding the Holocaust and the early years of the Second World War — they seek visual evidence or illustrations of the past. But photographs may refuse to fit expected narratives and interpretations, revealing both more and less than we expect. Focusing on photos of Jews taken on the main avenues of Cernau?i, Romania, before the Second World War and during the city’s occupation by Fascist Romanians and their Nazi-German allies, this essay shows how a close reading of these vernacular images, both for what they show and what they are unable to show, can challenge the “before, during, and after” timeline that, in Holocaust historiography, we have come to accept as a given.
When historians, archivists, and museologists turn to Eastern European photos from family albums or collections — for example, photos from the decades preceding the Holocaust and the early years of the Second World War — they seek visual evidence or illustrations of the past. But photographs may refuse to fit expected narratives and interpretations, revealing both more and less than we expect. Focusing on photos of Jews taken on the main avenues of Cernau?i, Romania, before the Second World War and during the city’s occupation by Fascist Romanians and their Nazi-German allies, this essay shows how a close reading of these vernacular images, both for what they show and what they are unable to show, can challenge the “before, during, and after” timeline that, in Holocaust historiography, we have come to accept as a given.
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