Undoing Gendered Expressions of Grief: Dora Kallmus’ Post-War ‘Slaughterhouse’ Photographs (1949−1958)
| Autor: | Thomas, Kylie |
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| Přispěvatelé: | NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 33(2), 57-80. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co. KG Schmerz L'Homme Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft |
| ISSN: | 1016-362X |
| Popis: | This article focuseson theworkofJewish Austrian photographerDoraKallmus,also known as Madame d’Ora,thenamesheassumedin1907whensheopenedwhatwastobecomeoneofthemostimportantphotographystudiosinVienna.In the 1920s, Kallmus opened a studio in Paris, where she excelled asan innovative fashion photographer and created portraits of the leading cultural figures of her time. This articlecentreson thedramaticshiftinthekindsofimages KallmuscreatedintheaftermathoftheSecondWorldWar,when she photographed peopleinrefugeecampsinAustria,andintheabattoirsofPariswhereKallmus spent the final decade of her life creating a series of photographs of dying and dead animals.Inordertounderstandthesephotographsandtheirpowerfulaffectivecharge,the article argues that itisnecessarytoconsiderthemnotonlyinrelationtothebodyofworkKallmusproducedbeforethewar,buttoreadtheminrelationtothecatastrophiceventsthateffectivelydestroyedbothherlife and the social world she inhabited. I read these images as an expression of Kallmus’ views on society and the practice and meaning of photography in the aftermath of the death camps,andcomparethisto the post-war thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt.Through my readings of Kallmus’ slaughterhouse series, I seek to show not only how the images reveal the photographer’s own psychic pain but also insist on a confrontation with the painful truth of the Shoah. The desire to avoid this painful reckoning, I argue, provides a reason for why this series has been largely ignored for the last six decades. This research forms part of research funded by the European Commission within the framework ofH2020-EU.1.3.2.MarieSkłodowska-CurieIndividual Fellowship for the projectFem-ResistGrant agreement ID: 838864 |
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