Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
53,2 (2008) 261-283
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Sources
;
World War, 1939-1945 Photography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Abstract:
Discusses the testimonial value of photographs in the context of the Shoah as part of a debate triggered by a display in 2001 in Paris of four photographs taken by a Sonderkommando inside a gas chamber in Auschwitz in 1944. Elaborates on the view of Georges Didi-Huberman, who argues that these photographs contradict the dogma of the impossiblity of representing the Shoah, and those of Gerard Wajcman and Elisabeth Pagnoux, who criticize photographs for their constructive distortion of the negative reality of the Shoah. With regard to the crucial question of the significance of the black areas in the four photographs, argues that the boundary between image and "non-image" in photography is historically determined and contingent, as is the question of the "imaginability" of the Shoah.
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