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Vivien Fryd Is Keynote Speaker at University of Arkansas Art History Symposium

Posted by on Friday, March 9, 2018 in Conferences, Events, HART, News, VRC.

henryriesVivien Fryd, professor of history of art, is the keynote speaker at the University of Arkansas Art History Symposium March 8-9 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Fryd, niece of the New York Times photographer Henry Ries (1917-2004) will address the topic Henry Ries: The Berlin Wall as a Counter-Monument Atop the Ruins of War, Terror, and Division.

Ries, a Berlin-born Jew who fled Hitler with his sister (Fryd’s mother) in 1938, returned to Germany after the war and often used images of mundane life to contrast the darkness of war’s aftermath. Among his most evocative photographs of postwar Germany are his images of the Berlin airlift in 1948 and 1949.

Fryd is currently writing a book manuscript entitled Writing Trauma: Henry Ries’ Photographs of Berlin, 1937-2004.

*Henry Ries. Wanda Looks at ‘The Life of Berliners’, ca. 1978.

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