Trespassing through shadows : memory, photography, and the Holocaust / Andrea Liss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liss, Andrea.

Series:

Visible evidence ; v. 3.

Visible evidence ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Pictorial works.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Documentary photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Photographs of the Holocaust bear a double burden: to act as history lessons for future generations so we will "never forget" and to provide a means of mourning. In Trespassing through Shadows, Andrea Liss examines the inherent difficulties and productive possibilities of using photographs to bear witness, initiating a critical dialogue about the ways the post-Auschwitz generation has employed these documents to represent Holocaust memory and history.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: (Im)Possible Witnessing; 1 Photography and Naming; 2 The Identity Card Project and the Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; 3 Between Trauma and Nostalgia: Christian Boltanski's Memorials and Art Spiegelman's Maus; 4 Artifactual Witnessing as (Im)Possible Evidence; 5 The Provocation of Postmemories; In Lieu of a Conclusion: Tender Rejections; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-147) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8870-2

OCLC:

615015796

Publisher Number:

9780816630592