{"product_id":"alive-and-destroyed-9781954119024","title":"Alive and Destroyed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Holocaust as history ended seventy-five years ago  about the span of a full human life; the Holocaust as culture is very much of the present  its meanings and lessons still actively in formation. For twenty-five years  Jason Francisco has wrestled with the afterlife of the genocide  creating a large number of photoworks and essays  including extensive work with the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakw  Poland. At the center of his work work has been his long-term project Alive and Destroyed: A Meditation on the Holocaust in Time  begun in 2010. With a large format camera and antique lenses  Jason Francisco has undertaken a series of deep journeys extending from Berlin in the west to Kharkov in the east  Riga in the north to Bucharest in the southfor the sake of images that might carry the complications of remembering and forgetting in the places where the events we collectively call the Holocaust occurred. His destinations included the notorious sites of the genocide  such as Auschwitz and the ghettos of Warsaw and d  which often are taken to stand for the whole. And has made his way to hundreds of small  often remote concentrationary sites in Poland  Ukraine  Moldova  Belarus  Lithuania  Latvia  Russia  Hungary and Slovakiamassacre sites in forests  fields  riverbanks and cemeteries  deportation routes  subcamps  labor camps  transit camps  short-term ghettoes  escape routes  hiding places  not to mention countless sites of erstwhile Jewish life and civilization  some intact  more in ruins  vastly more in states of nothingness. Jason Franciscos decentralized approach follows recent scholarship  which has identified more than 42 500 locations in Nazi-occupied Europe where the Holocaust was perpetrated: venturing into the physical geography of the genocide venturing into the territory of remembrance and forgetting  and search for an image form that might carry register what he found and felt. In its method and form  Alive and Destroyed is an unconventional work of witness. Documentary in spirit and conceptualist in method  it does not use photography to capture the worlds that the Holocaust left behindto use the most common metaphor for the photographic act  itself reflecting a carceral understanding of photography as a medium. Rather Alive and Destroyed draws on the capacities of photography to test and redefine what we mean by presence and absence in memory and imagination. The photographs in Alive and Destroyed set out to releaseto uncapturethe volatile mixture of incomprehension  argument  reclamation and loss that constitute the Holocaust as an inheritance for the living. Beyond being representations of sites in the world the Holocaust left behind  the images in Alive and Destroyed are themselves primary sites of meditation and mourning. -- Jason Francisco  Jason Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67904716668981,"sku":"ByrdShop_195411902X","price":32.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781954119024.jpg?v=1793850816","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/alive-and-destroyed-9781954119024","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}