Ryerson Lecture Series: October 18, 2007 – Geoffrey James

“Memory and the Camps”
Without a receiver, no message.
Thesis of show: no one has ever looked at the full range of Holocaust photos, i.e. who took photo, for what purpose, for whose benefit?
Photography was forbidden by 1941, the Nazis had completely succeeded in controlling the image of the camps.
Franz Braun took photos at Dachau.
Mary Vogel took photos.
“Identity photos”: L-R profile, Frontal, ¾ R-L, (photos of inmates)
Full frontal (faces of SS guards Bergen-Belsen)
Front flat light, no fill in eyes.
Eisenhower ordered photos of camp inmates.
George Rogers (photographer)
Lee Miller (photographer) was criticized for “composing”.
Margaret Bourke-White
Eric Schwab
Michael Kenner – art photos
Derk Reinhartz took photos at Auschwitz.
Rheinhard Matz.
Eric Hartmann, a photographer who lost his entire family in the camps.
Architectural records of camp were kept.
Edel Weitzman – Israeli architect.

~ by epkfilms on June 14, 2008.