Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography, And The Holocaust (Volume 3) (Visible Evidence) - Hardcover
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.
Focusing on a wide range of photographic displays and museum installations as well as such films as Shoah and Schindler's List, Liss questions the role of photography as social practice. She critically analyzes the transformations that documentary and more intimate photographs undergo as they are mediated through contemporary exhibition techniques, both at the institutional level of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and in the hands of a group of contemporary artists and photographers including Art Spiegelman, Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman, Christian Boltanski, Suzanne Hellmuth and Jock Reynolds, and Anselm Kiefer.
Timely and lucidly crafted, Trespassing through Shadows provides crucial insight into debates around representational strategies.
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Liss is the contemporary art historian and cultural theorist.
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- PublisherUniv Of Minnesota Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0816630593
- ISBN 13 9780816630592
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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