Ep. 20 - Henryk Ross's Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto (1940-44)

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🗓️ 4 July 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this special episode, we look at the exhibition Memory Unearthed: Henryk Ross’s Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto, and explore the Lodz ghetto specifically, Holocaust photography more generally, and the role our need for a good story has played in shaping our understanding of both. Memory Unearthed is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston until July 30, 2017 See the images: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/6/29/episode-20-henryk-rosss-photographs-of-the-lodz-ghetto Music Used: The Blue Dot Sessions, "Doghouse", "Drone Pine", "Drone Birch", "3rd Chair", "Our Fingers Cold"

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0:17.0	Since I was young I followed the story about the Nazi concentration and you know how they exterminate the Jews I
0:28.0	Amongst all the photos that I've seen here, these are the natural ones that, you know, capture their life before that.
0:37.4	I mean, these people are actually doing things and engaged in activities of like everyday living so I think there's a more human more personal touch here.
0:57.0	I guess I'm still fascinated and repelled at the same time of the fact of these, of the people trying to make it in these horrible conditions. You could still see the dignity on the faces of many of these people.
1:02.0	There was one wall that was a special of many of these people.
1:03.0	There was one wall that was especially revealing
1:06.0	of all of the children and the adults.
1:10.0	And you had glimpses of what might have been. and you saw that
1:15.0	saw that dignity and you saw the caring and the emotion and the tenderness
1:20.0	is just overwhelming.
1:27.0	I think there's a risk to objectivity
1:31.0	because we lose the face of humanity and what's that expression those
1:37.1	who are not versed in history are doomed to repeat it.
1:47.0	It needs to be told over and over and over again because people will never learn.
1:50.0	I get very emotional.
1:57.0	This needs to be told. This is a special episode of The Lonely Pallet, the podcast that returns art history to the masses one painting at a time, and today one exhibition at a time. I'm Tamara Vichai.
2:18.0	This is episode 20 and will look at the exhibition, Memory Uneirthed, Theotched Ghetto photographs of Henric Ross, which is a joint
2:26.0	exhibition between the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Austin. There is a photograph hanging on the wall, three galleries into the archive of Henric Ross's images of the Latch ghetto.
2:50.0	It's in a room titled Deportation, and this photo is one of many that tell the story one moment at a time of the increasing emptiness of a ghetto being liquidated.
3:02.0	The photograph is of a boy in the back of a truck about to be taken
3:06.8	away and he's smiling because a camera is on him and even amidst the chaos of the liquidation and the anxiety of the unknown,
3:17.0	what do you do when a camera is on you? You smile.
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