Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945
Françoise Meltzer
Abstract
This book draws on literature and a never-before-seen cache of photographs taken by a member of the French Resistance (who is also the author's mother), immediately following the Allied bombing of Berlin and other German cities near the end of World War II. The book explores the representation of catastrophe through the gaze of the camera's lens. It uses the medium and witnessing of photography to question the ethics of targeting civilians during war.
Keywords: Germany during and after WWII, photography, ruins gazing, The Resistance, memory, ethics, bombing, suffering, witnessing, literature
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226625638 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2020 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226625775.001.0001 |
