Format:
Online-Ressource (203 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9783839436240
Series Statement:
Image Volume 101
Content:
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.
Note:
Dissertation Goldsmiths, University of London
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837636246
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Helmerdig, Silke, 1965 - Fragments, futures, absence and the past Bielefeld : transcript, 2016 ISBN 3837636240
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837636246
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Konzentrationslager Auschwitz
;
Dokumentarfotografie
;
Geschichte
;
Fotografie
;
Geschichte 1945-
;
Fotografie
;
Geschichte 1945-
;
Hochschulschrift
Author information:
Helmerdig, Silke 1965-
