PARTNERS: VASA
About the project:
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Photography and the Holocaust: Then & Now a journal theme that will examine over a number of essays photography’s changing role in documenting, interpreting, and understanding the Holocaust (Shoah). It will assess how photographs are an element in a larger systemic universe, deriving from multiple personal and community economic/political/psychological/social and technical perspectives, and how these viewpoints affect a photograph’s construction and how this directs its interpretation and circulation.The essays in this theme include references to film and photographs.
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* Holocaust Photographic Perspectives
* Nazi Propaganda & Holocaust: Film and Media
* Henryk Ross: Life Inside the Lodz Ghetto – Hero or Kapo?
* How History is Constructed as a Social & Political Act by Tomasz Strug, Deputy Director
& Chief Curator of the Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, Poland.
* Children of the Holocaust
*Post-Holocaust Generation/Secondary Memory
* Holocaust Memories: Survivors, Memorials, Amateurs, and a Glimpse into the Future
* Media’s History on reporting about the Holocaust & antisemtism
* Summary and Conclusion
