History, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the Tondues: Visuality of the Vichy Past through the Silent Image of Women
History, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the Tondues: Visuality of the Vichy Past through the Silent Image of Women
复制标题
通都摄影中的历史、记忆和创伤:通过女性沉默的形象展现维希过去
DOI:
--
复制
发表时间:
2005
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
A. Moore
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
A. Moore
In numerous surveys of modern European history one can find examples of iconic visual representations of the ‘tondues’: French women targeted as collaborators and whose heads were shaven in rituals of public disgrace during and after the defeat of German forces at the end of World War II. As images of humiliation, popular retribution, implicitly sexualised but muted corporeal violence, the tondue photos are striking, arresting and confounding to scholars and non-academic viewers alike. Frequently in these images the shaven-headed women appear to stare blankly, faces silent with shock or with sadness or with a refusal to perform the shame the crowd demands. But while thousands of such photographs exist in archives, only a small number are repeatedly disseminated to a broad academic and general public, predominantly through their reproduction in modern Europe survey books, popular historiography of the French Occupation and Liberation, in historical exposés in French news magazines and textbooks, and in recent academic critiques of the politics of retribution in post-war Europe. While a substantial body of scholarship has remarked upon the striking nature of tondue visual representation, the status of the tondue photographs as texts within the politics of historical memory remains under-theorised. This article is not based on a study of the process by which such photographs were taken and first circulated, but rather on their postwar, especially recent, usage in works of both scholarly and popular representation of the past. The reproduction, contextualisation and captioning of tondue photographs in such texts has frequently been