PHOTOMONTH IN KRAKOW — 2012
NOW I LOOK BEAUTIFUL AND HATE MYSELF
NOW I LOOK BEAUTIFUL AND HATE MYSELF
Karolina Sulej, Witold Orski
A German soldier observes a woman wading in a lake
© Washington, United States Holocaust Museum
Photographs most often function as icons or documents. Photos that depict the Holocaust should symbolise or bear testimony to its existence. And yet there are photos that, although they were taken during the Holocaust, were rejected as being unsuitable for symbolising or bearing testimony to this time. Why? Was this right?
Lectures
19.05, 15:30 Karolina Sulej Now I look beautiful and hate myself – or why some testimonies from the time of the Holocaust do not fit the popular canon, and what happens to them then
25.05, 18:00 Iwona Kurz Greetings from Auschwitz: A Tourist’s View
31.05, 18:00 Agnieszka PajÄ
czkowska Typical Photos of the Holocaust – Reflections on the “Photo of Diggers” Based on Golden Harvests by Jan T. Gross and Irena GrudziĹska-Gross
The photographs come from the archives of Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Bundesarchiv, Fritz-Bauer-Institut, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz