Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past : A New Approach to Photography / Silke Helmerdig.

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Helmerdig, Silke [author.]

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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

Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2016Title is part of eBook package: transcript Complete Package 2014-2015Title is part of eBook package: transcript eBook Package English Contemporary 2016-2018Summary: 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.

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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.

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