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Author_Sara Davidmann
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Family history
Holocaust
Nazi Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9781910401552
- Dimensions: 200 x 300mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2021
- Publisher: GOST Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sara Davidmann’s father was never able to talk about his experiences growing up in Nazi Berlin,
the traumatic events that occurred before he left, the family members who were murdered, or
his evacuation. These experiences formed a space in his life that was too painful to revisit, and
Davidmann grew up knowing very little about this side of her family history. From her father, she
inherited an aversion to everything connected with the Holocaust. Through piecing together
fragments from family albums and in-depth research through archives and archival materials, and
reworking imagery through her own processes, Davidmann re-tells the story of a family history
nearly extinquished.
For fourteen years (1999-2013) Davidmann took photographs and carried out oral history
recordings in collaboration with people from UK transgender and queer and communities. Her
photographs have been internationally exhibited and published. Since 2013 her work on ‘the
family’ has focused on her own family and family history. Her project, ‘Ken. To be destroyed,’
which tells the story of her transgender uncle, has been published as a monograph, edited by
the writer and curator Val Williams. Davidmann is a Reader in Photography at London College of
Communication, University of the Arts London.
