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Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory
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"One's first encounter with the photographic inventory of ultimate horror is a kind of revelation, the prototypically modern revelation: a negative epiphany. For me, it was photographs of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau that I came across by chance in a bookstore in Santa Monica in July 1945. Nothing I have seen--in photographs or in real life--ever cut me as sharply, deeply, instantaneously. Indeed, it seems plausible to me to divide my life into two parts, before I saw those photographs (I was twelve) and after, though it was several years before I understood fully what they were about. What good was served by seeing them? They were only photographs--of an event I had scarcely heard of and could do nothing to affect, of suffering I could hardly imagine and could do nothing to relieve. When I looked at those photographs, something broke. Some limit had been reached, and not only that of horror; I felt irrevocably grieved, wounded, but a part of my feelings started to tighten; something went dead, something is still crying." 1
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- Authors
- Hirsch, M.
- Venue
- The Yale Journal of Criticism
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2001-03
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-37
- ISSN
- 0893-5378 (ISSN-L)
- 1080-6636
- OpenAlex
- W2043662235
- Cited by
- 567
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 5.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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