Images in Spite of All

Informationen zum Autor Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including Images in Spite of All, published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Didi Huberman Georges, Georges Didi-Huberman, Georges/ Lillis Didi-Huberman, Didi-Huberman Georges, Shane B. Lillis
• Assisted by: Shane B. Lillis (Translation), Lillis Shane B. (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2012
• EAN: 9780226148175
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14817-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; European History, Poland, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Photographic reportage, Photojournalism and documentary photography, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front