About the Author

Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at l'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Shane B. Lillis recently earned his PhD in French literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

"Didi-Huberman argues clearly and forcefully that engagement with these photos is necessary and responsible, and that we owe it to the men and women who performed these acts of resistance so that we would see and think." - Donald M. Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"