Holocaust Museum

Robert Fitterman

Sep 2013 · Counterpath

About this ebook

Holocaust Museum reframes the captions of holocaust photographs from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. These captions—without their photographic images—are arranged loosely in the order or narrative constructed by the museum. There are many purposes to this project but the genesis is in articulating a cultural shift from image to text. The subject, this particular holocaust, was chosen because the images are shared in our collective memory—by presenting only the text, the reader is, hopefully, consigned into a more complicit experience.

About the author

Robert Fitterman is the author of 12 books of poetry, including his long poem Metropolis, which has been published in 4 volumes; other titles include: now we are friends (Truck Books, 2010), Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books, 2009), and Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Vanessa Place (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). His writing has been described as: radical appropriation that aims to critique institutions by repurposing the languages of those institutions (corporate, technological, consumerist). Additionally, his poetry continues to shop for: “the best deals and most provocative experiences.” He is the founder of Collective Task—a collective of over 20 artists and writers, and he has collaborated with several visual artists including: Tim Davis, Nayland Blake, Dirk Rowntree, Cheryl Donegan, Penelope Umbrico, Klaus Killisch, and others. He teaches writing and poetry at New York University and at the Bard College, Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies.