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Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past : A New Approach to Photography / Silke Helmerdig.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Image ; 101Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783837636246
  • 9783839436240
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 900 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • TR145.H456 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements
Summary: 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 on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of "what has been", Silke Helmerdig suggests a different approach to photography: an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of "what could be, if", allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past.
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements

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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 on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of "what has been", Silke Helmerdig suggests a different approach to photography: an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of "what could be, if", allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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