9780226625638-022662563X-Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945

Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945

ISBN-13: 9780226625638
ISBN-10: 022662563X
Edition: First Edition
Author: Françoise Meltzer
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780226625638
ISBN-10: 022662563X
Edition: First Edition
Author: Françoise Meltzer
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages

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Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945 (ISBN-13: 9780226625638 and ISBN-10: 022662563X), written by authors Françoise Meltzer, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Criticism & Essays (Photography & Video) books. You can easily purchase or rent Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945 (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Criticism & Essays books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of them force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questions about forgiveness and revenge?

Françoise Meltzer explores those questions in Dark Lens, which uses the images of war ruins in Nazi Germany to investigate problems of aestheticization, the representation of catastrophe, and the targeting of civilians in war. Through texts that give accounts of bombed-out towns in Germany in the last years of the war, painters’ attempts to depict the destruction, and her own mother’s photographs taken in Berlin and other cities in 1945, Meltzer asks if any medium offers a direct experience of war ruins for the viewer. Ultimately, she concludes that while the viewer cannot help reimaging the devastation through the lenses of history, aestheticization, or voyeurism, these images at least allow us to approach the reality of ruins and grasp the larger issue of targeting civilians in modern warfare for what it is. Refreshingly accessible and deeply personal, Dark Lens is a compelling look at the role images play in constructing memories of war.

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