Open AccessMy Poyln
Author(s) -
Marcel Herbst
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european journal of life writing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2211-243X
DOI - 10.21827/ejlw.9.36309
Subject(s) - photography , theme (computing) , the holocaust , reading (process) , denial , meaning (existential) , history , literature , art , philosophy , visual arts , psychoanalysis , linguistics , psychology , epistemology , theology , computer science , operating system
The note of My Poyln was written as an introduction to a planned photography book regarding a Jewish past that is cleansed from its erstwhile meaning, desolated, and mourned. The thrust to research and photograph a former time grew slowly, over many years. My reading of the Holocaust is one of grief about the denial of the past (and a more humane future) and the lost cross-ethnic, rich culture. That theme I follow in writing and photography—next to my more normal concerns relating to more mundane matters—see: www.4mat.ch.