Visual Testimony
Lee Miller’s Dachau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21158031 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon Sliwinski (Faculty of Information & Media Studies, North Campus Bldg., Room 240, The University of Western Ontario, London, ONT, N6A 5B7, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 389-408 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470412910380358 |
| OpenAlex | W1975057425 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 12 |
This essay examines images of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp taken by American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller. Miller’s work is mobilized as an optic through which to grasp the shock of confronting the Nazi camps. Her images are read as a form of visual testimony. That is, although they fail to provide a transparent view of what occurred in the Nazi lagers, they are nevertheless inscribed with all that the photographer did not know of the events to which she bore witness. The nature of this strange unintelligibility is what the author pursues: the visual inscription of the unspeakable as a disquieting resource for thinking through the paradoxes of witnessing and the transmission of human experience
Art · Art history · Inscribed figure · Miller · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Visual arts · Witness · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |