Davor Konjikušić offers an in-depth presentation and contextualization of the photographs created by Yugoslav partisans between 1941 and 1945. The book goes beyond an aesthetic depiction of the photographs; it also deals with the history of their use and function within one of the biggest anti-fascist movements in Europe during the Second World War.
The photographs are used to trace the development of a movement that―while seemingly doomed to certain failure―nevertheless survived the most destructive war in human history.
This book provides new answers to the question of photography’s role as a medium and its significance and use in social movements.
Author(s): Davor Konjikušić, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Edition: 1
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 384
9783422986480
9783422986480
Contents
Photography, First and Foremost
‘You’re Taking Pictures, While We’re Being Killed!’ On Materiality, Art, and the Civil Contract of the Partisan Photo Archive
1. Introduction
2. The Battleground of Representation: From the Paris Commune to Nazism
3. The Social Contexts of Photography and Its Development between the Two World Wars
4. The Red Glow of Partisan Photography
5. Photography and Propaganda
6. Partisan Photography’s Revolutionary Perspective
7. Iconic Photographs
8. Intelligence Uses of Photography and Trophy Photos of Atrocities
9. Photo Archive: The Themes and Subject Matter of Partisan Photography
10. Conclusion
List of Partisan Photographers
Bibliography
