Grief : the biography of a Holocaust photograph / David Shneer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shneer, David, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balʹtermant︠s︡, D. (Dmitriĭ). Gorʹe.

Balʹtermant︠s︡, D.

Balʹtermant͡s, D. (Dmitriĭ). Gorʹe.

War photographers--Soviet Union--Biography.

War photographers.

War photographers--Soviet Union--History.

World War, 1939-1945--Photography.

World War, 1939-1945.

Photography.

War photography--Ukraine--Kerch.

War photography.

Documentary photography--Soviet Union--History.

Documentary photography.

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine--Kerch.

Massacres--Ukraine--Kerch.

Massacres.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--In mass media.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Atrocities.

Mass media.

History.

Soviet Union.

Ukraine--Kerch.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In January 1942, Soviet photographers came upon a scene like none they had ever documented. That day, they took pictures of the first liberation of a German mass atrocity site, where an estimated 7,000 Jews and others were executed at a trench near Kerch on the Crimean peninsula. Dmitri Baltermants, a photojournalist working for the Soviet newspaper Izvestiia, took pictures that day that would have a long life in shaping the image of Nazi genocide in and against the Soviet Union. Presenting never before seen photographs, Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph shows how Baltermants used the image of a grieving woman to render this gruesome mass atrocity into a transcendentally human tragedy. David Shneer tells the story of how one photograph from the trench became much more widely known than the others, eventually being titled "Grief." Baltermants turned this shocking atrocity photograph into a Cold War era artistic meditation on the profundity and horror of war that today can be found in Holocaust archives as well as art museums and at art auctions. Although the journalist documented murdered Jews in other pictures he took at Kerch, in "Grief" there are likely no Jews among the dead or the living, save for the possible NKVD officer securing the site. Nonetheless, Shneer shows that this photograph must be seen as an iconic Holocaust photograph. Unlike emaciated camp survivors or barbed wire fences, Shneer argues, the Holocaust by bullets in the Soviet Union make "Grief" a quintessential Soviet image of Nazi genocide"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Making of a Soviet War Photographer and the German Occupation of Kerch

2. Witnessing Grief: The First Reports of Genocide

3. The Aftermath of Grief

4. Producing and Displaying Grief

5. Valuing Grief

6. How Grief Became a Commodity

7. Seeing the Holocaust in Grief.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Shneer, David, 1972- Grief

ISBN:

9780190923815

0190923814

OCLC:

1121082617

Publisher Number:

40030055254