Impossible to Forget - Hardcover

Kenna, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159005010X ISBN 13: 9781590050101

Publisher: Nazraeli Press, 2001

Synopsis

Michael Kenna photographed Nazi concentration and extermination camps from 1988 to 2000, and subsequently donated all negatives, prints, and their respective rights to the French Government and the Caen Memorial. Kenna first visited the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France in 1986. Two years later he returned, still marked by the initial emotional impact, no doubt the key to his decision to develop a project about the Holocaust. Since then, he has repeatedly returned to Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Lublin-Majdanek, Ravensbruck, Buchenwald and many other camps to photograph their restless emptiness. Overwhelmed by the abomination of the gas chambers and by the inexpressible suffering of the victims, Kenna wanted to share a memory that he found impossible to forget. Knowing that a work of art can be an invitation to meditation, he went to the concentration camps to photograph what they had become: sites of contemplation. The photographs in Impossible to Forget are directly opposed to the evil that continues to live in the camps, to nihilism and to revisionism; they are bearers of peace and compassion.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nazraeli Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 159005010X
• ISBN 13: 9781590050101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128