Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

About this Work

A professor emeritus of photography in Indiana University’s Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture & Design, Jeffrey Wolin has long been interested in the power that photographs hold in the recollection of memories. In the late 1980s, he began a project that combined portraits of survivors of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany with written transcriptions of their personal stories. Wolin’s photo-text style merged the faces of the present with the voices of the past. Sometimes, he asked the sitters to pose with a photographic portrait of themselves or a lost loved one taken just before, during, or immediately after War II. In this image, Mišo holds a picture of his father, who died in Auschwitz at age forty-four.