It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as mere illustrations, simple documentations of the events that transpired. Scholars of photography,...

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1. Verfasser:	Morris-Reich, Amos (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:	Jewish Culture and Contexts
Schlagworte:	Arts-Photography History of Jewish People and Culture Interdisciplinary-Jewish Studies HISTORY / Jewish Historiography and photography Jews > Historiography Jews > History > 20th century Photography > History > 20th century Photography > Philosophy Photography > Political aspects Photography > Social aspects Geschichtsschreibung Juden Fotografie
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Zusammenfassung:	It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as mere illustrations, simple documentations of the events that transpired. Scholars of photography, on the other hand, tend to prioritize the photographs themselves, relegating the historical contexts to the background. For Morris-Reich, however, photography exists within reality; it partakes in and is very much a component of the history it records. Morris-Reich examines how photography affects categories of history and experience, how it is influenced by them, and the ways in which our understanding of the relationship between history and photography can be theorized and reoriented.Morris-Reich here turns to five twentieth-century cases in which photography and Jewish history intersect: Albert Kahn's utopian attempt to establish a photographic archive in Paris in order to advance world peace; the spectacular failed project of Helmar Lerski, the most prominent photographer in British Mandate Jewish Palestine; photography in the long career of Eugen Fischer, a Nazi professor of genetics; the street photography of Robert Frank; and the first attempt to introduce photography into the study of Russian Jewry prior to World War I, as seen from the post-Holocaust perspective of the early twenty-first century. Illustrated with nearly 100 images, Photography and Jewish History moves beyond a focus on Jewish photographers or the photographic representation of Jews or Jewish visibility to plumb the deeper and more significant registers of twentieth-century Jewish political history
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (248 pages)
ISBN:	9780812298529