Photography and Trauma: An Introduction

His mother wrapped him up in a shawl and gave him a passport photograph of herself as a student. She told him to turn to the picture whenever he felt the need to do so. His parents both promised him that they would come and find him and bring him home after the war. (Dori Laub 1992) Survival, testimony, and witness The 1992 coauthored collection Testimony by Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub became a groundbreaking work in trauma studies largely due to its ability to situate trauma within a post-...