Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography, And The Holocaust (Visible Evidence)

✍ Scribed by Andrea Liss

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 174
• Series: Visible Evidence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Art historian 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. 12 color photos. 28 b&w photos.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: (Im)Possible Witnessing......Page 12
1 Photography and Naming......Page 22
2 The Identity Card Project and the Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum......Page 34
3 Between Trauma and Nostalgia: Christian Boltanski’s Memorials and Art Spiegelman’s Maus......Page 60
4 Artifactual Witnessing as (Im)Possible Evidence......Page 90
5 The Provocation of Postmemories......Page 106
In Lieu of a Conclusion: Tender Rejections......Page 136
Notes......Page 146
Bibliography......Page 160
F......Page 170
M......Page 171
V......Page 172
Y......Page 173