Greetings from Auschwitz, 2015
Author: Paweł Szypulski
Author: Paweł Szypulski
Design: Pilar Rojo
Publishers: Foundation for Visual Arts, Edition Patrick Frey
Hardcover, 88 pages, 75 color images
21.5 × 22.5 cm
Shorlisted at the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2015!
Greetings from Auschwitz is a book based on an unusual collection put together over several years by Polish artist and curator Paweł Szypulski. It shows postcards sent by tourists who visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The oldest postcard dates from 1947 – only two years after the liberation of the camp.
The postcards collected by Paweł Szypulski propose a radically different – chatty and inappropriate – narrative. His book discusses a social memory of the Holocaust, which is entirely different from the memory that is present in high art and scientific discourse. Greetings from Auschwitz is a thought-provoking visual essay about failure of both language and image in dealing with a social trauma caused by one of the biggest catastrophes in the human history.
Publishers: Foundation for Visual Arts, Edition Patrick Frey
Hardcover, 88 pages, 75 color images
21.5 × 22.5 cm
Shorlisted at the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2015!
Greetings from Auschwitz is a book based on an unusual collection put together over several years by Polish artist and curator Paweł Szypulski. It shows postcards sent by tourists who visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The oldest postcard dates from 1947 – only two years after the liberation of the camp.
The postcards collected by Paweł Szypulski propose a radically different – chatty and inappropriate – narrative. His book discusses a social memory of the Holocaust, which is entirely different from the memory that is present in high art and scientific discourse. Greetings from Auschwitz is a thought-provoking visual essay about failure of both language and image in dealing with a social trauma caused by one of the biggest catastrophes in the human history.
