In connection with the Galicia Jewish Museum’s mobile app, “Photographs from Jewish Poland” American Jewish photographer and essayist Jason Francisco presents a critical overview of the photography of the Holocaust.
Beginning with some of the key complications surrounding photographs of prewar Jewish life, Francisco considers the photographic record of the Holocaust as it reflects several distinct points of view, corresponding to photographers’ positions in the genocidal events as they unfolded.
Francisco’s presentation also considers the friction between the visible and the sayable in the visual record—the simultaneous legibility and illegibility of the genocide as it emerges imagistically. Richly illustrated, including many little-considered images, the presentation engages the perils and the necessities of undertaking remembrance by way of critical study of historical photographs.
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A public project co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland through the competition “Public Diplomacy 2020 – A New Dimension”.
The lecture reflects only the views of its creators and holds no bearing on the official position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
