Abstract
This article traces the presence of Atlantikwall bunkers in amateur holiday snapshots and discusses the ambiguous role of the bunker site in visual cultural memory. Departing from my family’s private photo collection from twenty years of vacationing at the Danish West coast, the different mundane and poetic appropriations and inscriptions of the bunker site are depicted. Ranging between overlooked side presences and an overwhelming visibility, the concrete remains of fascist war architecture are involved in and motivate different sensuous experiences and mnemonic appropriations. The article meets the bunkers’ changing visuality and the cultural topography they both actively transform and are being transformed by through juxtaposing different acts and objects of memory over time and in different visual articulations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Transvisuality : The Cultural Dimension of Visuality : Volume II : Visual Organizations |
| Editors | Anders Ib Michelsen, Frauke Katharina Wiegand, Tore Kristensen |
| Place of Publication | Liverpool |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
| Publication date | 27 Jul 2015 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781781381786 |
| Publication status | Published - 27 Jul 2015 |