Writing Visual History - Photography, Visual Arts and Media

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The conference intends to discuss how visual media shapes our understanding of the past and contributes to the writing of history. The main focus is on use, selection and appropriation of visual media (films, photographs) in museums, visual arts, archives and the cinema from interdisciplinary perspectives that combine practical, theoretical, legal and aesthetic approaches of scholars from Israel and Germany as well as from artists and curators