Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz

Name: Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz
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ISBN: 9780226148175

ISBN-10: 0226148173

ISBN-13: 9780226148175

Edition: 2012

Authors: Georges Didi-Huberman, Shane B. Lillis

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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 Allreveals 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 been pulled out. Georges Didi-Huberman’s relentless consideration of these…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.87" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the ï¿½cole des hautes ï¿½tudes 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.



List of Illustrations


Translator's Note


Bibliographical Note to the French Edition



Images in Spite of All


Four Pieces of Film Snatched from Hell


Against All Unimaginable


In the Very Eye of History


Similar, Dissimilar, Survivor



In Spite of the All Image


Fact-Image or Fetish-Image


Archive-Image or Appearance-Image


Montage-Image or Lie-Image


Similar Image or Semblance-Image


Notes


Index