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Comment Nick Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
Many films have been made about The Holocaust. What makes Photographer different? It depends on the discovery of a cache of photographs of the Lodz ghetto made by the Nazi's chief accountant. The photographs were taken in a propagandist vein - they were supposed to demonstrate the glory of the German experiment in creating work camps for Jews.
Jablonski has taken this astonishing material, and in counterpoint he shows us the truth, through the account of a Polish doctor who was there. The two stories side by side constitute an unforgettable depiction of the ghetto - and they also are an essay on truth and lies in storytelling.
