A Child at Gunpoint : A Case Study in the Life of a Photo.
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R012420 Ned. Fotomuseum $T RASKIN.R 2004
TitleA Child at Gunpoint : A Case Study in the Life of a Photo.
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Place of publicationAarhus
PublisherAarhus University Press
Year of publication2004
Pagination192
Illustrationsb&w
DimensionsA4
MaterialTekstboek
Document TypeBook
ISBN87-7934-0997
Bibliographic Notespb; index, bibliography, notes;
Abstract
We cite from the cover:
"This book will interest anyone wishing to know more about the photo of the boy with raised hands, taken in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, and widely considered the single most striking image we have of the Holocaust.
Based largely on new research carried out in Warsaw, the book traces the origins of the SS album in which the picture first appeared, considering what meaning the photo had for the SS elite.
This study also focuses on:
• four claims concerning the identity of the boy ;
• the crimes and fate of the SS trooper holding the child at gunpoint ;
• competing assumptions as to who took the photograph; the present whereabouts of the originals ;
• reasons for the unique status of this picture ;
• its dissemination and role in a number of works of art ;
• the special interest taken in this photo by Holocaust-deniers ;
• recent uses of the photo in the "war of images" in the Middle East.
"This book will interest anyone wishing to know more about the photo of the boy with raised hands, taken in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, and widely considered the single most striking image we have of the Holocaust.
Based largely on new research carried out in Warsaw, the book traces the origins of the SS album in which the picture first appeared, considering what meaning the photo had for the SS elite.
This study also focuses on:
• four claims concerning the identity of the boy ;
• the crimes and fate of the SS trooper holding the child at gunpoint ;
• competing assumptions as to who took the photograph; the present whereabouts of the originals ;
• reasons for the unique status of this picture ;
• its dissemination and role in a number of works of art ;
• the special interest taken in this photo by Holocaust-deniers ;
• recent uses of the photo in the "war of images" in the Middle East.
| Copy number | R012420 |
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| Shelf mark | $T RASKIN.R 2004 |