The Jewish engagement with photography
By: Michael Berkowitz, Martin Roman Deppner (eds.) ; translations from German: Christo Wilkins
Contributors: Felix-Nussbaum-Haus (Osnabrück, Germany)
Series: Oldenburgische Beiträge zu jüdischen Studien -- volume 22; Oldenburgische Beiträge zu jüdischen Studien -- Bd. 22.
Publisher: BIS-Verlag der Carl von Ossietzky Universität
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Oldenburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9783814223490
Subjects: Photography; Congresses; History; Jewish photographers; Jewish art; Judaism and art
Description: "The powerful Jewish engagement with photography has been felt in numerous photographic positions and theoretical reflections. This fact has remained largely neglected in the research on the effectivity of photography. It is not only due to historical interest that the conference placed its focus on those impulses from the Jewish tradition which - so the thesis - have also turned out to be especially productive for the visual discourse of the present; even more important was the aim to gain insights for the direction of contemporary photography. The question in the focus of the conference was therefore how the Jewish culture, which is oriented towards writing, can be connected to photographic image production"--Back cover.
Notes: Conference proceedings.

"The book is based on talks held at the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Osnabrück on the 29./30. November 2012"--Facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.