Écorces, Georges Didi-Huberman
(Part of Catherine Millet’s theme: History)

This is the simple "photo story" of a walk in Auschwitz-Birkenau in June 2011. It is the attempt to interrogate some shreds of the present that had to be photographed to see what was in front of one's eyes, what survives in memory, but also something that is implemented by the desire, the desire to not remain in the overwhelmed mourning of the place. It is a moment of personal archaeology, an archaeology of the present to raise the internal necessity of this wandering. It is a gesture to return to the site of crematorium V where four photographs were taken by members of the Sonderkommando in August 1944, photographs that are still discussed today. It is the need to write down - and therefore to reinterrogate - each of these fragile decisions of looking.

Éditions de Minuit, 2021
Text in French
Soft cover
18 x 13 cm
80 pages
ISBN: 978-2-7073-2220-3