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Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz
Georges Didi-Huberman
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Paperback. Of one-and-a-half million photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. This book reveals that these photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Translator(s): Lillis, Shane B. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; AJCR; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350. Four Photographs from Auschwitz. 248 pages, 30 halftones. Of one-and-a-half million photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. This book reveals that these photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; AJCR; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight: 302. Translator(s): Lillis, Shane B.
Of one-and-a-half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in "Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Available today because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show a group of naked women being herded into the gas chambers and the cremation of corpses that have just ... Read more
Of one-and-a-half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in "Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Available today because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show a group of naked women being herded into the gas chambers and the cremation of corpses that have just ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226148175
SKU
V9780226148175
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About Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at L'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Shane B. Ellis teaches at the Universite de Savoie, France.
Reviews for Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz
"Images in Spite of All provides the carefully extended anguished engagement, both epitaph and caption, that the subject demands." (William T. Vollman, Bookforum)"