History, Photographs and Memory
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R072157 Ned. Fotomuseum Ned. fotomuseum
TitleHistory, Photographs and Memory
Author
Edition[nummer] 1
[jaargang] 10
[tijdschrift; titel] PHOTO COMMUNIQUE
[tijdschrift; pagina] 36-39
Photographer
Iconographic keywords
Year of publication1988
Materialartikel
Document TypeArticle
SubjectAntropologie en fotografie, Fotokritiek, Geschiedenis en fotografie, Geschiedenis van de fotografie: CDN (Canada), Geschiedenis van de fotografie: D (Duitsland), Nazisme en fotografie, Oorlogsfotografie, Theorie van de fotografie
Abstract
Anthropologist Kolodny discusses the book ""Mining Photographs and Other
Pictures 1948-1968'', edited by Buchhloh and Wilkie (1983, Halifax) which
presents a selection of the archive of Leslie Shedden Studio, Glace Bay, Cape
Breton (CDN), and Ulrich Keller's ""The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs'' (1984,
New York, Dover Publ.). The first book is judged as ""a monument to the
recontextualization school'' (of critical history and of photography
criticism). According to the author, the photographs ""mutely resist'' such
recontextualization. The author also describes showing history students the
Warsaw Ghetto pictures without accompaning text, which tended to evoke the
wrong emotions, since the original context of these photographs was as a
documentation of victory, not loss. The author concludes that ""to
recontextualize in this case is to confront the fact that photographs, like
memory, are resistant to closure, to a final photographs, like memory, are
resistant to closure, to a final about where we are now''.
Citaten:
Keller, U.: The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs (1984)
Buchloh / Wilkie: Mining Photographs and Other Pictures (1983)
Pictures 1948-1968'', edited by Buchhloh and Wilkie (1983, Halifax) which
presents a selection of the archive of Leslie Shedden Studio, Glace Bay, Cape
Breton (CDN), and Ulrich Keller's ""The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs'' (1984,
New York, Dover Publ.). The first book is judged as ""a monument to the
recontextualization school'' (of critical history and of photography
criticism). According to the author, the photographs ""mutely resist'' such
recontextualization. The author also describes showing history students the
Warsaw Ghetto pictures without accompaning text, which tended to evoke the
wrong emotions, since the original context of these photographs was as a
documentation of victory, not loss. The author concludes that ""to
recontextualize in this case is to confront the fact that photographs, like
memory, are resistant to closure, to a final photographs, like memory, are
resistant to closure, to a final about where we are now''.
Citaten:
Keller, U.: The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs (1984)
Buchloh / Wilkie: Mining Photographs and Other Pictures (1983)
| Copy number | R072157 |
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| Shelf mark | Ned. fotomuseum |