Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a highly personalized way, Amos Morris-Reich unpacks five important episodes where Jewish history and the history of photography come together. For Morris-Reich, photography has changed the world not only by endowing it with better and more accessible images, but also by changing the way people think about certain things—and Jews have been particularly subject to these changes." * Michael Berkowitz, University College London *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Utopia and Photography circa 1900: Albert Kahn and the Archives of the Planet
Chapter 2. The Boundaries of Photographic Intention: Helmar Lerski’s “Failed” Project
Chapter 3. Album of an Extinct Race: Eugen Fischer and Photography
Chapter 4. Photography for Its Own Sake: Robert Frank and The Americans
Chapter 5. Photography and Rupture: S. An-sky, Solomon Yudovin, and the Documentation of Russian Jewry
Conclusion. Photography and Democracy
Notes
Index
