Concrete Memories: The In/Visibility of Bunker Ruins

Frauke Katharina Wiegand

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Abstract

This article traces the presence of Atlantikwall bunkers in amateur holiday snapshots and discusses the ambiguous role of the bunker site in visual cultural memory. Departing from my family’s private photo collection from twenty years of vacationing at the Danish West coast, the different mundane and poetic appropriations and inscriptions of the bunker site are depicted. Ranging between overlooked side presences and an overwhelming visibility, the concrete remains of fascist war architecture are involved in and motivate different sensuous experiences and mnemonic appropriations. The article meets the bunkers’ changing visuality and the cultural topography they both actively transform and are being transformed by through juxtaposing different acts and objects of memory over time and in different visual articulations.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelTransvisuality : The Cultural Dimension of Visuality : Volume II : Visual Organizations
RedaktørerAnders Ib Michelsen, Frauke Katharina Wiegand, Tore Kristensen
UdgivelsesstedLiverpool
ForlagLiverpool University Press
Publikationsdato27 jul. 2015
ISBN (Trykt)9781781381786
StatusUdgivet - 27 jul. 2015

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