Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Schewe on March 16, 2017, 06:25:46 pm
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Interesting story (and sad)
‘I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.’ The photographs of Henryk Ross. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/03/06/i-buried-my-negatives-in-the-ground-in-order-that-there-should-be-some-record-of-our-tragedy-henryk-ross/?hpid=hp_no-name_photo-story-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.58b8b5a0076f)
Officially, former Polish press photojournalist Henryk Ross was forced to work by the Nazi regime as a bureaucratic photographer for the Jewish Administration’s statistics department. He took photographs for Jewish identification cards, as well as images used as propaganda for the Lodz Ghetto. Ross, a Jew, was one of at least 160,000 people held in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, second only to the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Europe.
Unofficially, at great personal danger, Ross documented the cruel truth of life under Nazi rule. In the four-year existence of the Lodz Ghetto, a quarter of its prisoners died of starvation. In 1942, nearly 20,000 were deported to the death camp of Chelmno; in 1944, 70,000 were sent to Auschwitz.
There will be an exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Memory Unearthed - The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross (http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/memory-unearthed)
Exhibit Slideshow Preview (http://www.mfa.org/node/576026?modal=true)
Sure hope the arts survive...
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Wow, hard to believe. The images are quite moving. Thanks for sharing Jeff.
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‘I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.’ The photographs of Henryk Ross. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/03/06/i-buried-my-negatives-in-the-ground-in-order-that-there-should-be-some-record-of-our-tragedy-henryk-ross/?hpid=hp_no-name_photo-story-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.58b8b5a0076f)
Sure hope the arts survive...
Thanks for the link. I read the WPost most days, but I missed this. Yet another reminder that what seem like stable, civilized, democratic countries can veer off out of control, and go drastically wrong.
Fortunately, "It Can't Happen Here." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here)
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I noticed in the slide show that the images were copyrighted to the AGO. Looking further I found this from the AGO website : http://agolodzghetto.com
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Interesting story (and sad)
‘I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.’ The photographs of Henryk Ross. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/03/06/i-buried-my-negatives-in-the-ground-in-order-that-there-should-be-some-record-of-our-tragedy-henryk-ross/?hpid=hp_no-name_photo-story-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.58b8b5a0076f)
There will be an exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Memory Unearthed - The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross (http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/memory-unearthed)
Exhibit Slideshow Preview (http://www.mfa.org/node/576026?modal=true)
Sure hope the arts survive...
You guys come late (very) to the party: the BBC's The Genius of Photography series of devoted photography shows explored that in fine detail at least a decade ago, including interviews with reunited survivors as well as a visit to a house from where the ' bridge' photograph was shot, the bridge constructed because Jews were forbidden access to the road.
I have an old Internet link to some of the series, but it has been hijacked by some tragicsploitation outfit I don't trust. I'm sure anyone interested can find a fresh and safe one. A good series that covers a lot of famous PJs who had lots of real talent.
Rob
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You guys come late (very) to the party: the BBC's The Genius of Photography series
Yep! i purchased the DVDs and it was indeed a great series though for obvious reasons a lot of the history of photography was omitted.