Texto nazi - PhMuseum

This book explores how context shapes perception, revealing the complex relationship between image, word, and history.

There is an exercise that I use in my classes, and that consists of the following: I show the class some four or five photos of houses, and I ask them to comment on what they see. They generally describe them formally; they talk about the composition, the image’s quality, or some architectural style. There’s always one student who postulates suspicion, knowing there is a trap. After
sharing impressions about the photographs, I tell them that these houses are places where Nazi hierarchs stayed. Silence filled the classroom. And then I ask them: What do you see now?

This book is a continuation of that exercise. A possible investigation into the infinite relationship between image and word and the conditions that this link imposes on our way of understanding and living in the world.