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Author Struk, Janina.

Title Photographing the holocaust : interpretations of the evidence / Janina Struk
Published London : I.B. Tauris : EJPS (European Jewish Publication Society), 2004

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 MELB  779.99405318 Str/Pth  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: A Photograph from the Archives -- 1. Photography and National Socialism 1933-39 -- 2. Photographs as Evidence -- 3. Armed with a Camera -- 4. Cameras in the Ghettos -- 5. Cameras in the Camps -- 6. Liberations -- 7. Constructing the Post-war Memory: 'Don't Mention the Jews' -- 8. Commercializing the Holocaust: 'There's No Business Like Shoah Business' -- 9. Interpretations of the Evidence -- 10. Dying for Eternity
Summary "This book recounts the history of the use and abuse of Holocaust photographs and illustrates the stories it tells and the questions it explores with a wide range of photographs, including a number never published before."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Documentation.
Documentary photography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Pictorial works.
War photography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.
Author European Jewish Publications Society.
LC no. 00840149
ISBN 1860645461