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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262342629
A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau. On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, a flood, a path, time, memory, flesh. The bark serves as a springboard to Didi-Huberman's meditations on his visit, recorded in this spare, poetic, and powerful book. Bark is a personal account, drawing not on the theoretical apparatus of scholarship but on Didi-Huberman's own history, memory, and knowledge. The text proceeds as a series of reflections, accompanied by Didi-Huberman's photographs of the visit. The photographs are not meant to be art—Didi-Huberman confesses that he “photographed practically everything without looking”—but approach it nevertheless. Didi-Huberman tells us that his grandparents died at Auschwitz, but his account is more universal than biographical. As he walks from place to place, he observes that in German birches are birken ; Birkenau designates the meadow where the birches grow. Didi-Huberman sees and photographs the “reconstructed” execution wall; the floors of the crematorium, forgotten witnesses to killing; and the birch trees, lovely but also resembling prison bars. Taking his own photographs, he thinks of the famous photographs taken in 1944 by a member of the Sonderkommando, the only photographic documentation of the camp before the Germans destroyed it, hoping to hide the evidence of their crimes. Didi-Huberman notices a “bizarre proliferation of white flowers on the exact spot of the cremation pits.” The dead are not departed.
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0020
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262342629
Book: Bark
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 20 October 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11239.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262342629