A Child at Gunpoint: A Case Study in the Life of a Photo »

The photograph that is the subject of Raskin's penetrating case study was taken in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. Basing his work on new research, Raskin (the founder of the Danish journal of film studies P.O.V.) traces the origins of the SS album in which the striking picture first appeared. His study considers the meaning the photo held for the SS elite and explores issues such as the picture's role in a number of works of art, its use in the "war of images" in the present-day Mideast, and the special interest taken in it by Holocaust deniers. Raskin writes for the general reader as well as academics, archivists, and librarians in Holocaust studies, history, Judaica, media studies, and photography. Thoroughly illustrated in b&w and color; distributed in the US by David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR