Last Folio: A Photographic Memory / Ein fotografisches Gedachtnis: a photographic memory = ein fotografisches Gedächtnis - Rilegato

Dojc, Yuri; Krausova, Katya

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ISBN 10: 3791381458 ISBN 13: 9783791381459

Casa editrice: Prestel Pub, 2015

Riassunto

This personal and immensely moving collection of photographs taken decades after the Holocaust poignantly documents a once thriving culture that disappeared virtually overnight. The first country to adopt Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish policies, Slovakia transported three-quarters of its Jewish population to concentration camps in a matter of months, including Yuri Dojc’s grandfather. Many years later, Dojc returned to his ancestor’s home, camera in hand. Serendipity led him to an abandoned Jewish school in eastern Slovakia, where time had stood still since the day in 1943 when all those attending were taken away to the camps. What he found inside, as well as in the abandoned synagogues and cemeteries he visited, were the remnants of a dynamic culture that disappeared in an instant. These haunting photographs of decaying books, fragments of the Torah, splintered gravestones and the vacant, crumbling building, evoke a lost way of life. The photographs’ vibrant colors, exquisite detail, and near abstract composition tell us more about how the people lived than how they died. Among the many hundreds of books and fragments, one stands out especially, one which miraculously found its way from dusty pile to its rightful heir, a book once owned by Yuri’s grandfather, Jakub. Beautifully reproduced in this volume, Dojc’s exquisite images are both artistically and historically powerful.

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Deeply moving and personal photographic account taken decades after the Holocaust...The sheer quality of the book is something that really impressed me. --The Last Word, Book Review Online, 13th July 2015

Mr Dojc, a US based photographer, has made it his mission to document the remnants of Jewish life in the country. The result is a series of haunting images that show abandoned cemeteries, decaying scrolls and shuls that have been left to rot. --The Jewish Chronicle, 10th April 2015

L'autore:

Yuri Dojc's photographs are held in the Library of Congress in Washington,vD.C. and in the National Gallery of Canada. He has published a number of books,vincluding the award-winning collection of Holocaust survivors, We Endured. Katya Krausova is a television producer and writer based in London. She is the co-founder of Portobello Pictures, an independent production company.

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• Editore: Prestel Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3791381458
• ISBN 13: 9783791381459
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 128