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Images in Spite of All - Four Photographs from Auschwitz (Paperback) Loot Price: R734
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Images in Spite of All - Four Photographs from Auschwitz (Paperback): Georges Didi-Huberman

Images in Spite of All - Four Photographs from Auschwitz (Paperback)

Georges Didi-Huberman; Translated by Shane B. Lillis

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Of one-and-a-half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in "Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Available today because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show a group of naked women being herded into the gas chambers and the cremation of corpses that have just been pulled out. Georges Didi-Huberman's relentless consideration of these harrowing scenes demonstrates how Holocaust testimony can shift from texts and imaginations to irrefutable images that attempt to speak the unspeakable. Including a powerful response to those who have criticized his interest in these images as voyeuristic, Didi-Huberman's eloquent reflections constitute an invaluable contribution to debates over the representability of the Holocaust and the status of archival photographs in an image-saturated world.

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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2012
First published: May 2012
Authors: Georges Didi-Huberman
Translators: Shane B. Lillis
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14817-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic reportage
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN: 0-226-14817-3
Barcode: 9780226148175

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