“Our series is intended to further explore not only the status of images in their own time, but what they have come to mean and represent for subsequent generations.”
The schedule of events for Images in Crisis, a linked lecture and film series, is as follows. All the events take place at 7 p.m. in 201 Gowen, and are free and open to the public.
Monday, Jan. 9: A screening of Roberto Benigni’s Oscar-winning 1997 Holocaust fantasy Life is Beautiful.
Tuesday, Jan. 10: Marianne Hirsch of Columbia University will speak on Holocaust photography and the crisis of meaning. The iconic photo Geist and the others chose for this part of the series is from 1943 and its original was captioned in German, “Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs.”
Tuesday, Jan. 24: A screening of The Gate of Heavenly Peace, a documentary about the 1989 protests in China.
Wednesday, Jan. 25: Jeffrey Wasserstrom of the University of California, Irvine, will discuss visual images of the Tiananmen Square Massacre such as the famous photograph called “Tank Man,” taken June 5, 1989, by photographer Jeff Widener of The Associated Press.
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