The play “Here There Are Blueberries” (NY run ends 6/30) is a brilliantly staged detective story recounting the process by which photo archivists and historians work to reconstruct and understand a historical moment through the painstaking analysis of an album of black & white photos documenting everyday life among co-workers. The photo album, discovered in 2007, was created by a senior German officer at Auschwitz and documents everyday mundane office gatherings, family life, and recreation among officers and staff who administered Auschwitz. The play raises interesting questions about what gets documented and by whom, what gets lost and then found, and what conclusions one can derive about the unseen from a collection of seemingly banal old photos
The play “Here There Are Blueberries” (NY run ends 6/30) is a brilliantly staged detective story recounting the process by which photo archivists and historians work to reconstruct and understand a historical moment through the painstaking analysis of an album of black & white photos documenting everyday life among co-workers. The photo album, discovered in 2007, was created by a senior German officer at Auschwitz and documents everyday mundane office gatherings, family life, and recreation among officers and staff who administered Auschwitz. The play raises interesting questions about what gets documented and by whom, what gets lost and then found, and what conclusions one can derive about the unseen from a collection of seemingly banal old photos
Yes! I've been thinking about trying to see it.
Godard’s Comment ca va? is a film essay on the challenges of reading old photos.