Grief : the biography of a Holocaust photograph / David Shneer.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197504611 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Bal§termanëtìs, D. (Dmitriæi). Gor§e | War photographers -- Soviet Union -- History | World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography | War photography -- Ukraine -- Kerch | Documentary photography -- Soviet Union -- History | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Ukraine -- Kerch | Massacres -- Ukraine -- Kerch | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- In mass mediaAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190923815DDC classification: 779.99405318 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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