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PHOTOMONTH IN KRAKOW — 2012 Photomonth_kropki_duze

NOW I LOOK BEAUTIFUL AND HATE MYSELF Photomonth_kropki_duze

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; Project: Now I look beautiful and hate myself
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 Pajączkowska Typical Photos of the Holocaust – Reflections on the “Photo of Diggers” Based on Golden Harvests by Jan T. Gross and Irena Grudzińska-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