The Public Trial and Execution of Arthur Greiser in Poznań: Visual Rhetoric of Documentary Photography and Local Memory

Res Rhetorica

Anna Topolska¹ 

[1] Independent Scholar;

关键词: visuality;    documentary photography;    memory;    World War II;    war criminal;   

DOI  :  10.29107/rr2019.4.1

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

On the example of the ethically controversial photographs made by Zbigniew Zielonacki from the public trial and execution of Arthur Greiser, the Nazi deputy in the Wartheland, the author demonstrates the visuality of local memory at the intersection of the narrative and non-narrative, private and public, individual and collective sphere. The photographs have become an inherent element of Poznań inhabitants’ memory of World War II and its outcomes, although they did not fit any of the emerging main war narratives.

【 授权许可】

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