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Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past : a New Approach to Photography.

According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment. Instead of counting o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Helmerdig, Silke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2016.
Colección:Image.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents ; Introduction. "After Auschwitz"
  • photography and the principle of hope ; Chapter 1. Photography and historiography ; Chapter 2. Post-War Germany and its remembrance of the Holocaust ; Chapter 3. The representation of absence in photography ; Chapter 4: Epilogue. Photography: A future subjunctive for the past.