ISBN:
9780812253917
Language:
English
Pages:
235 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Jewish culture and contexts
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Morris-Reich, Amos, 1970 - Photography and Jewish History
DDC:
770
Keywords:
Kahn, Albert
;
Lerski, Helmar
;
Fischer, Eugen
;
Frank, Robert
;
An-Ski, S
;
I︠U︡dovin, S
;
Photography History 20th century
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Photography Philosophy
;
Photography Political aspects
;
Photography Social aspects
;
Historiography and photography
;
Jews Historiography
;
Fotografie
;
HISTORY / Jewish
;
PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism
;
Photography & photographs
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
;
Social & cultural history
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften
;
Juden
;
Fotografie
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
"This book develops a method that emphasizes the entwinements of "technology," "ideology," and the medium-specific particularities of photography in five twentieth-century cases in which photography and Jewish history intersect"--
Abstract:
It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as mere illustrations, simple documentations of the events that transpired. Scholars of photography, on the other hand, tend to prioritize the photographs themselves, relegating the historical contexts to the background. For Morris-Reich, however, photography exists within reality; it partakes in and is very much a component of the history it records. Morris-Reich examines how photography affects categories of history and experience, how it is influenced by them, and the ways in which our understanding of the relationship between history and photography can be theorized and reoriented.Morris-Reich here turns to five twentieth-century cases in which photography and Jewish history intersect: Albert Kahn's utopian attempt to establish a photographic archive in Paris in order to advance world peace; the spectacular failed project of Helmar Lerski, the most prominent photographer in British Mandate Jewish Palestine; photography in the long career of Eugen Fischer, a Nazi professor of genetics; the street photography of Robert Frank; and the first attempt to introduce photography into the study of Russian Jewry prior to World War I, as seen from the post-Holocaust perspective of the early twenty-first century. Illustrated with nearly 100 images, Photography and Jewish History moves beyond a focus on Jewish photographers or the photographic representation of Jews or Jewish visibility to plumb the deeper and more significant registers of twentieth-century Jewish political history
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
