Dark lens: imaging Germany, 1945

Abstract

"This book draws on literature, painting, and a never-before-seen cache of photographs to explore the representation of catastrophe and the targeting of civilians in war. Focusing on images of Nazi Germany's bombed-out cities, the author connects the fraught aesthetics of ruins with the problem of how to acknowledge German suffering."--Provided by publisher.

Contents

What I remember -- By way of beginning -- When words fail: writing disaster -- Ruination in painting: making the unspeakable visible -- Through a lens, darkly: texts and images -- Suffering and victimization -- Foregone and other conclusions.