TY  - BOOK
AU  - Helmerdig,Silke
TI  - Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past: A New Approach to Photography 
T2  - Image
SN  - 9783839436240
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript-Verlag, 
KW  - Absence
KW  - Contemporary History
KW  - Depiction
KW  - Fine Arts
KW  - Future
KW  - History
KW  - Image
KW  - Memory Culture
KW  - Moment
KW  - Past
KW  - Post-War Germany
KW  - Presence
KW  - Visual Studies
KW  - ART / Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction. "After Auschwitz" - photography and the principle of hope --; Chapter 1. Photography and historiography --; Chapter 2. Post-War Germany and its remembrance of the Holocaust --; Chapter 3. The representation of absence in photography --; Chapter 4: Epilogue. Photography: A future subjunctive for the past --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgements; restricted access
N2  - According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment.Instead of counting on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of "what has been", Silke Helmerdig suggests a different approach to photography: an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of "what could be, if", allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past
UR  - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839436240
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783839436240.jpg
ER  -