The Holocaust: The Desensitizing Effect Of Photography

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The Holocaust exists as a fundamental turning point in regards to international human rights, but what is often ignored is the desensitizing effect that photography and the frequent exposure to human tragedy may have on an individual bearing witness to such photography. Originally, post-Holocaust photography acted as the only form of media that could be trusted as fact. There was no contesting the human tragedy that lay out before their eyes. Furthermore, the Holocaust is often envisioned as the moment in history in which the global community finally came together to actively prevent and protect the world from another genocide from ever occurring again. Unfortunately, as history has shown, this hopeful thinking is yet to come true. In relation