Powojenne fotografie z obozów śmierci jako specyficzna odmiana ikonografii Zagłady i przykład fotografii forensycznej. Przypadek Bełżca i Treblinki
Post-war photographs from death camps as a specific type of iconography of the Holocaust and an example of forensic photography. The case of Bełżec and Treblinka

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the archival photographs from the death camps of Belzec and Treblinka, taken during the postwar investigations. Using the new theories of visual turn and forensic turn, the author examines its usefulness in the historical research and goes out beyond the traditionally considered categories of the historical sources and testimony. The essential notions of forensic aesthetics, forensic sensitivity and counter aesthetics are considered here not only as the theoretical approaches, but also as the practices of the critical writing of the testimonies from the mass killing cites. It sets the new research perspectives in the fundamental discourses of historiography and Holocaust studies.

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