Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba
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- Create Date：2024-02-09 13:21:58
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- Author：Teresa Aranguren
- ISBN：1642599808
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Reviews
Jung
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[5 stars] A curated collection of photographs depicting family， culture， architecture， and landscapes across Palestine prior to and just after the start of the Nakba in 1948。 I had the option to get this in hardcover print as part of my Haymarket Book Club subscription， and I’m so glad I did。 What a gift that these pictures have survived。 The pictures are powerful， and range from the official and formal to the casual and everyday。 I enjoyed the agricultural content and the moments of play and la [5 stars] A curated collection of photographs depicting family， culture， architecture， and landscapes across Palestine prior to and just after the start of the Nakba in 1948。 I had the option to get this in hardcover print as part of my Haymarket Book Club subscription， and I’m so glad I did。 What a gift that these pictures have survived。 The pictures are powerful， and range from the official and formal to the casual and everyday。 I enjoyed the agricultural content and the moments of play and laughter， and was deeply moved by the photographic evidence of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing。 While the photos are obviously the main draw， I also appreciated the brief essays on Palestinian history and curatorial process included in both Arabic and English。 Highly recommended for everyone， especially readers who enjoy learning through art and those who value archival and preservation work in documenting history and humanity。 Publication Info: Haymarket （Feb 2024）Goodreads 2024: 4/48 （read 1/21/24-1/23/24）Nonfiction: about culture Popsugar: nonfiction about Indigenous people CN / TW: mentions of ethnic cleansing， forced displacement， and genocide 。。。more
anna （½ of readsrainbow）
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if this collection of essays & photographs doesn’t radicalise you， i don’t know what possibly might。 seeing the silly smiles of palestinians captured on film at the beginning of the 20th century？ unparalleled。
charlotte，
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