monstrosity September 27, 2007
Posted by ocmpoma in : society , trackbackVia the BBC, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum has recently put up online an exhibit of a photo album taken at Auschwitz. The photos are of the SS personnel who worked at the camp — and the monstrosity of it all is revealed in how utterly ordinary they all seem.
Just as I mentioned recently while talking about Das Leben der Anderen, good and evil are not so cut and dry. Rather than, as Rebecca Erbelding says, a bunch of “red-eyed monsters” or easily-dismissed Col. Klinks, the pictures show regular men and women engaged in normal activities. There is no ‘evil’ inherent in the photos, and none of the portraits show someone with a shadow in their eyes. They’re just people. And that, in the end, is the real horror.
Tags for this article: art , morality , photos
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