Fragments, futures, absence and the past : a new approach to photography / Silke Helmerdig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helmerdig, Silke, 1965- author.

Series:

Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 101.

Image ; volume 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography.

Physical Description:

203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016].

Summary:

According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment. Instead of counting on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of "what has been", Silke Helmerdig suggests a different approach to photography: an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of "what could be, if", allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Photography and historiography 23

Chapter 2 Post-War Germany and its remembrance of the Holocaust 79

Chapter 3 The representation of absence in photography 137

Chapter 4 Epilogue 185.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of London.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783837636246

3837636240

OCLC:

959226633

Publisher Number:

9783837636246