Photographs of the Holocaust bear a double burden: to act as history lessons for future generations so we will "never forget" and to provide a means of mourning. In Trespassing through Shadows; Andrea Liss examines the inherent difficulties and productive possibilities of using photographs to bear witness; initiating a critical dialogue about the ways the post-Auschwitz generation has employed these documents to represent Holocaust memory and history.Focusing on a wide range of photographic displays and museum installations as well as such films as Shoah and Schindlers List; Liss questions the role of photography as social practice. She critically analyzes the transformations that documentary and more intimate photographs undergo as they are mediated through contemporary exhibition techniques; both at the institutional level of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington; D.C.; and in the hands of a group of contemporary artists and photographers including Art Spiegelman; Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman; Christian Boltanski; Suzanne Hellmuth and Jock Reynolds; and Anselm Kiefer.Timely and lucidly crafted; Trespassing through Shadows provides crucial insight into debates around representational strategies.
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