Survivor

A portrait of the survivors of the Holocaust

Harry Borden, Howard Jacobson

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Orion
01 April 2017

Photographs: portraits; The Holocaust

Award-winning photographer Harry Borden brings together powerful and moving portraits of Holocaust survivors, with captions in their own words.

Over the course of five years, acclaimed photographer Harry Borden has travelled the globe photographing survivors of the Holocaust. The people featured vary in age, gender and nationality, but are all tied together by their experience and survival of one of the darkest moments in human history.

Each photograph is accompanied by a handwritten note from the sitter, ranging from poems, to memories, to hopes for the future, creating a strong sense of intimacy between sitter and reader. This intimacy is amplified by the home settings of many of the photographs, along with the photographer's use of available light at each scene. At the end of the book is a section providing more information about the person in each portrait, and about how and what they survived, together with the historical context of the events they lived through.

Thought-provoking and touching, this book conveys the dignity and humanity of each subject's character. Survivor is a unique and powerful testimony of what it is to live with memories of the Holocaust.

By: Harry Borden
Foreword by: Howard Jacobson
Imprint: Orion
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 297mm, Width: 206mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 1.456kg
ISBN: 9781844039067
ISBN 10: 1844039064
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 01 April 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Harry Borden is one of the most celebrated portrait photographers working today. His pictures have featured on the covers of the world's leading magazines, including The New Yorker, Time, Vogue, American GQ, Das Magazin, Le Nouvel Observateur and Stern. Harry has won prizes at the World Press Photo awards (1997 and 1999) and was a judge in the contest in 2010 and 2011. In June 2005 he was awarded a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London; the gallery now has more than 100 examples of Harry's work in its permanent collection. His personal project on Holocaust survivors was shortlisted for the European Publishers Award in 2014. In the same year, Harry was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society.

Reviews for Survivor: A portrait of the survivors of the Holocaust

The book is also a crucial addition to the body of Holocaust testimony and memorialisation. - Australian Jewish News (Vic Edition) There is something so very honest in the way that Borden has gathered together these images of Holocaust survivors, taken in environments that are known to them, without the aid of artificial lighting. - 100percentrock