Of one-and-a-half-million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to[...]

In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asyl[...]

This book explores the relationship between images and language and probes the question of whether images, precisely where they intersect with the verbal realm, open up new insights that cannot easily be put into words. Recently, pictures have increasingly been understood as a medium of expression i[...]

Ersatz Essay 002

»Venus födelse« av renässansmästaren Botticelli är ett givet exempel på idealiseringen av den »rena skönheten« i den västerländska konsthistorien. Den franske idéhistorikern Georges Didi-Huberman vänder sig emot den »frigidiserande« synen på Venus och nak[...]