Obrazy navzdory všemu, G. Didi-Huberman

In August 1944, members of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando managed to secretly photograph the extermination process in which they were imprisoned. They left behind four photographs. In his book, Georges Didi-Huberman attempts to describe the vicissitudes that the secret photographers had to go through, to create a phenomenology of the photographs taken, and to understand their necessity, which is as valid today as it was then. He bases his work on an examination of the conditions under which visual sources can be used in the field of history. He concludes his reflections with a philosophical critique of the idea of unimaginability, with which the Shoah is often associated. He thus attempts to define the extent to which the experience of the camps is, despite everything, imaginable, and thus to better understand the value of images in history.