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Żywienie urazy. Wielka Wojna, fotografia traumatyczna i efekt traumy
Feeding the Rancour: The Great War, Traumatic Photography and the Effect of Trauma

Author(s): Wojciech Szymański
Subject(s): Photography, Semiology, Aesthetics, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Philosophy of History
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: the Great War; traumatic photography; trauma effect; Ernst Friedrich; George Soldan;

Summary/Abstract: Szymański analyses the photographic representation of trauma in two German photobooks dedicated to the visual traces of the Great War: Ernst Friedrich’s anti-war volume Krieg dem Kriege (1924) and George Soldan’s pro-war Der Weltkrieg im Bild (1926). Having discussed the two books in the context of theory and history of photography (Roland Barthes, Patrizia Di Bello, Georges Didi-Huberman, Susan Sontag), Szymański shows how the medium of photography was used in the period after WWI to produce the effect of trauma.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 37-55
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish