Grief : the biography of a Holocaust photograph /
David Shneer.
- 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Oxford scholarship online .
- Oxford scholarship online. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In January 1942, Soviet photographers came upon a scene like none they had ever documented. That day, they took pictures of the first liberation of a German mass atrocity site, where an estimated seven thousand Jews and others were executed at a trench near Kerch on the Crimean peninsula. Dmitri Baltermants, a photojournalist working for the Soviet newspaper Izvestiia, took pictures that day that would have a long life in shaping the image of Nazi genocide in and against the Soviet Union. Presenting never-before-seen photographs, Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph shows how Baltermants used the image of a grieving woman to render this gruesome mass atrocity into a transcendentally human tragedy.
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Bal§termanëtěs, D. Gor§e.
War photographers--History.--Soviet Union World War, 1939-1945--Photography. War photography--Ukraine--Kerch. Documentary photography--History.--Soviet Union World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine--Kerch. Massacres--Ukraine--Kerch. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--In mass media.