Through Amateur Eyes

Guerin, Frances

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“…Guerin therefore warns against three dangers linked to perpetrator photography. 61 Firstly, she points out the problem of identification with or sympathy for the perpetrator's perspective. This could result in a further objectification (and prolonged victimization) of the victims, an increasing fascination with the perpetrators, and possible fetishization of their images, thereby replicating the gaze of the perpetrator.…”

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“…Frances Guerin advocates that "to see the images means, first and foremost, to experience them visually." 98 And following Koeppler, this must be complemented by "priming the pump," by reflecting on what we have or have not seen, by relating these images to a wide web of sources in a pluralized understanding of the Holocaust, and by bridging our intuitive approach (system of looking) and rational approach (system of seeing) and relating this to our own agency to act on what we have learned from these visual moments of truth.…”

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Looking without Seeing

Busch¹

2023

Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society

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The Holocaust was one of the most photographed genocides of the twentieth century. Since 1945, images from the liberation of the camps were used as shaming and shocking instruments of visual denazification. Many decades later, these icons are still used in educational contexts such as school textbooks, exhibitions, and documentaries and are presented almost exclusively as mere illustrations and not as independent sources. By approaching the image as a source, this contribution reflects on the different ways of looking at and seeing Holocaust photography. By moving from a purely emotional and illustrative approach to a more integrated visual approach, the complex dynamics underlying the Holocaust and the timeless mechanisms of totalitarianism (victimization, perpetration, and implication) can be better understood.

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