Georges Didi-Huberman

TL;DR: In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century, focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that art historians look to Freud's concept of the "dreamwork" to find a code of interpretation, but rather to think of representation as a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction.

TL;DR: Georges Didi-Huberman as mentioned in this paper reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance.