Photographing the Holocaust: interpretations of the evidence

Abstract

"This book recounts the history of the use and abuse of Holocaust photographs and illustrates the stories it tells and the questions it explores with a wide range of photographs, including a number never published before."--Jacket.

Contents

Introduction : a photograph from the archives -- Photography and National Socialism 1933-39 -- Photographs as evidence -- Armed with a camera -- Cameras in the ghettos -- Cameras in the camps -- Liberations -- Constructing the post-war memory : 'Don't mention the Jews' -- Commercializing the Holocaust : 'There's no business like Shoah business' -- Interpretations of the evidence -- Dying for eternity.