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On European Ground

by Alan Cohen

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"A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's On European Ground considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can still observe in them today. By walking these sites and photographing the very ground in which their history has dissolved, Cohen opens a space for reflection on their complex gravity and legacy."--Jacket. "A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's On European Ground considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can still observe in them today. By walking these sites and photographing the very ground in which their history has dissolved, Cohen opens a space for reflection on their complex gravity and legacy."--BOOK JACKET.

BattlefieldsMoral and ethical aspectsAtrocitiesDocumentationPhotography in historiographyPolitical persecutionSocial conditionsDocumentary photographyNational socialismDocumentionHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Alienation (Social psychology)