Auschwitz Abstract
Tom R. Chambers combines photographs from the "The Auschwitz Album" with his geometric abstraction to embellish the documentation as symbols of value. The geometry and color fields accentuate the images of families and individuals before being stripped of their dignity and in many cases, put to death. He utilizes photographs that comprise direct eye contact with the SS cameras to establish a connection with the viewer of the compositions to "never forget". He has received permission from Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Jerusalem to exhibit this combined project as "Auschwitz Abstract" . "The Auschwitz Album" is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier. The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS m...