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Afterimages of Apartheid: Photography and Resistance

Kylie Thomas

London; New York: Routledge (2026), xxiii, 177 pp.

"Afterimages of Apartheid shows how photographs of the past can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects of apartheid in contemporary South Africa. Through close readings of significant images made during and after apartheid, the book shows how photography works as a mea ... more

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Familiar Faces: Photography, Memory, and Argentina's Disappeared

Piotr Cieplak (ed.)

Goldsmiths Press (2024), 240 pp.

"During the country's most recent civic-military dictatorship (1976–1983), 30,000 people were disappeared or killed by the state. Over the decades, vernacular and professional photographs have been central to the Argentine struggle for justice. They were used not only to protest the disappearances ... more

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Photography and everyday peacebuilding. Examining the impact of photographing everyday peace in Colombia

Tiffany Fairey, Edwin Cubillos, Manuela Muñoz

Peacebuilding, volume 12, issue 1 (2024), pp. 24-44

"Arts-based peacebuilding has gained attention, but evidence and research of its impact is fragmented and, in particular, the relationship between photography and peace is underexplored. This article examines photovoice as a tool for supporting everyday and community peace in conflict-affected commu ... more

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Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania

Eliane Kurmann

Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 393 pp.

"In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer Hinterlassenschaften. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinn ... more

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Viewing Photography in Post-Dictatorship Latin America: Visual Interruptions, 1997-2016

David Rojinsky

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvii, 293 pp.

"This book examines the archival aesthetic of mourning and memory developed by Latin American artists and photographers between 1997-2016. Particular attention is paid to how photographs of the assassinated or disappeared political dissident of the 1970s and 1980s, as found in family albums and in o ... more

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Collective Memory: Visual Perspectives from Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya & South Africa

Ebenezar Acquah, Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako, Patrique deGraft-Yankson, Mary Clare Kidenda, Nicola Pauli, Avi Sooful (eds.)

München: kopaed; Exploring Visual Cultures project (2022), 160 pp.

"The exhibition focuses on how young people envision their identities in their respective countries: what mental images do they collectively have about their life experiences. Thus, this project seeks to present collective memories from different parts of the world in an exhibition that will promote ... more

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On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History

Nadine Fresco

New York; Oxford: Berghahn; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2021), 104 pp.

"Straddling the boundary between historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many well-known image ... more

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Lest We Forget = Gegen das Vergessen

Luigi Toscano

Heidelberg: Gegen das Vergessen (2020)

"LEST WE FORGET is a project by the German-Italian photographer and filmmaker Luigi Toscano under the patronage of the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. In 2014, he started traveling in order to meet Holocaust survivors who are now living in the US, Germany, the Netherlands, Belarus, Ukraine, Isra ... el and Russia. He gave them the opportunity to share their personal story – probably for the last time. The result: more than 400 portrait photos – the heart of the project. They are at the center of a photographic installation as well as the photo book, an app and the documentary movie. The number is still growing, but as the years are passing by, it won’t be long before there are no contemporary witnesses alive anymore. When the meetings with the first protagonists started, we quickly realized that LEST WE FORGET was going to be more than just a short-term project. The people shared a lot with us – their very personal life stories. And they encouraged us to go on. Like Anna Strishkowa, who abused for human experiments by the Nazi “doctor” Mengele, when she was just a child and who we portrayed in Kiev in 2015: „If not us, who?“ Each and every story is unique. But at the same time, each and every story was also told for the countless others that could not be heard anymore. LEST WE FORGET is more than just a look back at our past, as remembrance has a great influence on how we feel and act. The protagonist Susan Cernyak-Spatz shared a quote with us that gets to the heart of it: „If we forget the past, we are condemned to repeat it.“ LEST WE FORGET is designed as an exhibition in the public space. Our goal is an open and barrier-free presentation of the pictures with access to all people. This democratic demand will remain crucial for us. However, with regard to the concrete form of the exhibition, we place great emphasis on openness and flexibility. This opens a broad range of opportunities: Even if places, conditions and forms change, the nature of the installation can be maintained. More than one million visitors worldwide have seen the photo installation LEST WE FORGET. In 2015 it was shown for the first time in Luigi Toscano’s hometown Mannheim. One year later it accompanied the state ceremony for the commemoration of the massacres in Babyn Yar in Kyiv, in which the then-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the then-patron of this project the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitshko participated. Three stations in Ukraine followed as well as two in Berlin. In 2018 LEST WE FORGET had its first exhibition in the US. The installation was invited for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Headquarters of the United Nations. Later that year, it was shown at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., where about 150 000 people saw the 120 exhibited portraits, the biggest of its kind. In autumn that year it traveled to Boston and in 2019 to San Francisco. Parallel to San Francisco, it was shown in Mainz and Vienna, firstly in three cities at the same time. The next stations in the US were Kansas City and Pittsburgh. There the exhibit took place at the Campus of the University of Pittsburgh – one year after the most horrific Anti-Semitic attackin US-history on the Tree of Life synagogue. In April 2019, when the portraits were exhibited at the Burgring in Vienna under the patronage of the Austrian president Alexander Van der Bellen, something happened what we have feared for a long time: Several pictures were defaced with knives and vandalized with National Socialist symbols and slogans. The blatant hatred and the force have deeply shocked us. But from then on, we could learn that other forces are stronger. The theater group Nesterval, the Muslim Youth of Austria, Young Caritas as well as other organizations and individual volunteers grouped up on their own and started to protect the exhibition from further attacks until its end, and this around the clock. The sympathy, solidarity and humanity we could experience has shown us: We are not alone and it is worth fighting on. In January 2020 the project accompanied the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Office of the United Nations in Geneva." (About the project) more

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Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens: Ein Album aus Auschwitz

Tal Bruttmann, Stefan Hördler, Christoph Kreutzmüller

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 303 pp.

"1944 entstanden im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau eine Vielzahl von Fotografien, die zumeist den SS-Fotografen Bernhard Walter und Ernst Hoffmann zuzuordnen sind. Erhalten blieben die Bilder in Form eines Albums im Besitz der Holocaust-Überlebenden Lili Jacob, die es auf Vermittlung Serge Kl ... more

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Fixiert: Fotografische Quellen zur Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden in Europa. Eine pädagogische Handreichung

Christoph Kreutzmüller, Julia Werner

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 63 pp.

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Der europäische Bildersaal: Europa und seine Bilder - Analyse und Interpretation zentraler Bildquellen

Michael Wobring, Susanne Popp (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 190 pp.

"Welche Bilder prägen unser Gedächtnis? Bilder nehmen im „visuellen Zeitalter“ eine herausragende Bedeutung für europäische Identität, Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtskultur ein. 14 Bildquellen – Gemälde und Fotografien –, die in den aktuellen Schulgeschichtsbüchern europäischer ... more