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Overview"Barbie Zelizer reveals the unique significance of the photographs taken at the liberation of the concentration camps in Germany after World War II. She shows how the photographs have become the basis of our memory of the Holocaust and how they have affected our presentations and perceptions of contemporary history's subsequent atrocities. Impressive in its range and depth and illustrated with more than 60 photographs, Remembering to Forget is a history of contemporary photojournalism, a compelling chronicle of these unforgettable photographs, and a fascinating study of how collective memory is forged and changed. ""[A] fascinating study. . . . Here we have a completely fresh look at the emergence of photography as a major component of journalistic reporting in the course of the liberation of the camps by the Western Allies. . . . Well written and argued, superbly produced with more photographs of atrocity than most people would want to see in a lifetime, this is clearly an important book.""—Omer Bartov, Times Literary Supplement" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barbie ZelizerPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Edition: 2nd ed. Dimensions: Width: 1.70cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 2.50cm Weight: 0.765kg ISBN: 9780226979724ISBN 10: 0226979725 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 01 December 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsMedia critic Zelizer, a columnist for the Nation who teaches at the Annenberg School of Communications at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, studies the effect of atrocity photos, paying particular attention to those taken at the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in WWII. Like so many writers on photography, Zelizer adopts as her starting point a line from Walter Benjamin: Every image of the past that is recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably. According to her, the liberation photographs have become paradigmatic for the ways in which atrocities are depicted in the news media; they function as a series of markers for collective memory of the Holocaust and project that reality forward onto more recent acts of barbarism. At the same time, the Holocaust photos served to establish the photograph as the seemingly irrefutable documentation of an otherwise unimaginably horrible fact. Zelizer traces the historical status of reporting on the Holocaust from before the liberation through the present to illustrate the way in which the status of photojournalism was significantly improved by the later events. (The word photojournalism was not even coined until 1942.) She follows the trajectory of post-Holocaust collective memory from the flood of images in the immediate aftermath of the war through nearly three decades of silence until the late 1970s, when the Holocaust once more became a central part of sociopolitical discourse. Finally, she analyzes the ways in which contemporary reporting attempts to reproduce the effects of reporting on the Holocaust. Her final conclusion is a damning one, that the use of such agonizing images merely allows for atrocity's normalization. Moreover, we may remember earlier atrocities so as to forget the contemporary ones. Regrettably, she couches her findings in a dry academic style that makes for tedious reading. The overall effect of the volume is enervation. An important topic still in search of the right analyst. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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