David Shneer (Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History and Professor

Grief

The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph

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Produktbeschreibung

Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph presents never-before-seen images and an untold story about a Soviet photographer and his signature image. David Shneer tells the story of how World War II photojournalist Dmitri Baltermants transformed a news photograph of a grieving woman at the first liberation of a German mass atrocity site into a transcendentally human tragedy that today appears in Holocaust archives and art museums around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 167mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780190923815
• ISBN-10: 0190923814
• Artikelnr.: 57828936

Autorenporträt

David Shneer is the Louis P. Singer Chair of Jewish History and Professor of History, Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of several prize-winning books including Through Soviet Jewish Eyes, New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora, and Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Introducing Grief
Chapter 1: The Making of a War Photographer and the German Occupation of Kerch
Chapter 2: Witnessing Grief
Chapter 3: The Aftermath of Grief
Chapter 4: Producing and Displaying Grief
Chapter 5: Valuing Grief
Chapter 6: How Grief Became a Commodity
Chapter 7: Seeing the Holocaust in Grief
Epilogue
Index