Grief
The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 October 2020
- ISBN 9780190923815
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 160x236x27 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 64
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Short description:
Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph presents never-before-seen images and an untold story about a Soviet photographer and his signature image. David Shneer tells the story of how World War II photojournalist Dmitri Baltermants transformed a news photograph of a grieving woman at the first liberation of a German mass atrocity site into a transcendentally human tragedy that today appears in Holocaust archives and art museums around the world.
MoreLong description:
In January 1942, Soviet press 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, where an estimated 7,000 Jews and others were executed at an anti-tank trench near Kerch on the Crimean peninsula. Dmitri Baltermants, a photojournalist working for the Soviet newspaper Izvestiia, took photos 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.
David Shneer tells the story of how that one photograph from the series Baltermants took that day in 1942 near Kerch became much more widely known than the others, eventually being titled "Grief." Baltermants turned this shocking wartime atrocity photograph into a Cold War era artistic meditation on the profundity and horror of war that today can be found in Holocaust photo archives as well as in art museums and at art auctions. Although the journalist documented murdered Jews in other pictures he took at Kerch, in "Grief" there are likely no Jews among the dead or the living, save for the possible NKVD soldier securing the site. Nonetheless, Shneer shows that this photograph must be seen as an iconic Holocaust photograph. Unlike images of emaciated camp survivors or barbed wire fences, Shneer argues, the Holocaust by bullets in the Soviet Union make "Grief" a quintessential Soviet image of Nazi genocide.
Grief joins a burgeoning literature on Holocaust and wartime photography, and its innovative and daring approach will inspire untold numbers of scholars who follow in this field.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Introducing Grief
Chapter 1: The Making of a War Photographer and the German Occupation of Kerch
Chapter 2: Witnessing Grief
Chapter 3: The Aftermath of Grief
Chapter 4: Producing and Displaying Grief
Chapter 5: Valuing Grief
Chapter 6: How Grief Became a Commodity
Chapter 7: Seeing the Holocaust in Grief
Epilogue
Index
