So many years after Susan Sontag’s seminal and almost simple “On Photography”, we have photographs as records or as propaganda or as masks? All of them, for sure.
Author Archives: Yatree
Yesterdays
Platform 17
You take an above-ground train and get off at a working station, Gruenweld, Berlin. You walk along a cobbled corridor till you see the sign in the second photo. Platform 17. All through the war, Jews were sent to concentration camps right from Berlin. The memorial to not forgetting is bone-chilling. You have to think …
The mother of all state surveillance
The Stasi Museum is essentially a brief history of Soviet repression of Eastern Europe with a particular focus on East Germany. Outside there 6 panels with a great timeline and photographs from 1945-1989. • the map shows the geographic reach of postwar Soviet control• Vaclav Havel, who worked as a laborer for four years during one …
There were many Schindlers
There were many “Schindlers” during the war. Otto Weidt was one such. I came across his workshop and museum in its original location in the Hackescher Market area of Berlin.• I had no idea that Jews were forbidden to have pets• The young woman in the photo survived the war even though she was sent …
Samba to the Reckoning 