Visualizing the Holocaust
Author: David Bathrick
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1571133836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust
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A Child at Gunpoint
Author: Richard Raskin
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis may well be the first book devoted to a single photograph. And surely no photo is more deserving of a comprehensive study than this one, widely considered the most striking and unforgettable image we have of the Holocaust.
Touching Photographs
Author: Margaret Olin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-05-21
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0226626466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography’s ability to “touch” us through a series of essays that shed new light on photography’s role in the world. Olin investigates the publication of photographs in mass media and literature, the hanging of exhibitions, the posting of photocopied photographs of lost loved ones in public spaces, and the intense photographic activity of tourists at their destinations. She moves from intimate relationships between viewers and photographs to interactions around larger communities, analyzing how photography affects the way people handle cataclysmic events like 9/11. Along the way, she shows us James VanDerZee’s Harlem funeral portraits, dusts off Roland Barthes’s family album, takes us into Walker Evans and James Agee’s photo-text Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and logs onto online photo albums. With over one hundred illustrations, Touching Photographs is an insightful contribution to the theory of photography, visual studies, and art history.
Nonfamily Abducted Children
Author: David Finkelhor
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Boy
Author: Dan Porat
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2010-10-26
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1429989343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals—both Jews and Nazis—associated with it. The Boy presents the stories of three Nazi criminals, ranging in status from SS sergeant to low-ranking SS officer to SS general. It is also the story of two Jewish victims, a teenage girl and a young boy, who encounter these Nazis in Warsaw in the spring of 1943. The book is remarkable in its scope, picking up the lives of these participants in the years preceding World War I and following them to their deaths. One of the Nazis managed to stay at large for twenty-two years. One of the survivors lived long enough to lose a son in the Yom Kippur War. Nearly sixty photographs dispersed throughout help narrate these five lives. And, in keeping with the emotional immediacy of those photographs, Porat has deliberately used a narrative style that, drawing upon extensive research, experience, and oral interviews, places the reader in the middle of unfolding events.
Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank
Author: Batya Brutin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-04-06
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 3110653214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe photographs of the unknown Warsaw Ghetto little boy and the well-known Anne Frank became famous documents worldwide, representing the Holocaust. Many artists adopted them as a source of inspiration to express their feelings and ideas about Holocaust events in general and to deal with the fate of these two victims in particular. Moreover, the artists emphasized the uniqueness of both children, but at the same time used their image to convey social and political messages. By using images of these children, the artists both evoke our attention and sympathy and our anger against the Nazis’ crime of killing one and a half million Jewish children in the Holocaust. Because they represent different sexes, and different aspects - Western and Eastern Jewry - of Holocaust experience, artists used them in many contexts. This book will complete the lack of comprehensive research referring to the visual representations of these children in artworks.
Sultry Lands
Author: L'sa G'bnz
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-06-09
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1463414277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRebecca lost the parents she had not known were not her own. Alone, she had to move to a place she did not know but would comfort her as she had to confront life head on. She was handed a package and some directions. She had to get used to her name biologically with no reason to change who she were. Who would have thought that fate would bring her to true happiness and into someone else's hearts desire.
The Forever Born
Author: Christina Schlosser-Horton
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0595450385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the world was first formed, the Lord and Satanel made an agreement that each would have one thousand years of dominion over the Earth. Now, it is the new millennium, and Satanel has refused to give up his hold. His decision starts an unprecedented spiritual war that could very well claim the lives of every human being on Earth-unless God's warriors can stop him. God sends twelve archangels to Earth in the guise of infants born to human parents, thus escaping Satanel and his legions' notice. Their mission is to recover the gemstones originally set in the Breastplate of Aaron, which were stolen by Satanel to prevent their use in battle. With the arrival of Ariel, the twelfth archangel, the strike is ready to commence. The perilous search for the jewels is fraught with danger for men and angels as they encounter physical and magical confrontations. But when it is time for the final battle, the denizens from the various realms of air, earth, fire, and water join the fight to determine the fate of the world.
Violence and Visibility in Modern History
Author: J. Martschukat
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-18
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1137378697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly, the studies gathered here recast debate over violence in modern societies by undermining teleological and reassuring narratives of progress.
Child Zero
Author: Chris Holm
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 031629554X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom molecular biologist turned Anthony Award-winning author of The Killing Kind comes a fact-based thriller about our species’ next great existential threat—perfect for fans of Michael Crichton. It began four years ago with a worldwide uptick of bacterial infections: meningitis in Frankfurt, cholera in Johannesburg, tuberculosis in New Delhi. Although the outbreaks spread aggressively and proved impervious to our drugs of last resort, public health officials initially dismissed them as unrelated. They were wrong. Antibiotic resistance soon roiled across the globe. Diseases long thought beaten came surging back. The death toll skyrocketed. Then New York City was ravaged by the most heinous act of bioterror the world had ever seen, perpetrated by a new brand of extremist bent on pushing humanity to extinction. Detective Jacob Gibson, who lost his wife in the 8/17 attack, is home caring for his sick daughter when his partner summons him to a sprawling shantytown in Central Park, the apparent site of a mass murder. Jake is startled to discover that, despite a life of abject squalor, the victims died in perfect health—and his only hope of finding answers is a twelve-year-old boy on the run from some very dangerous men.
