Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
‘From Where They Stood’ Film Review: Solemn Doc Spotlights Concentration Camp Photos
thewrap.comSonderkommando or other prison work units, forced to help with the disposal of gas-chamber victims or aid in disinformation campaigns designed to deny their own torture.
They hid their cameras under newspapers, inside latrines, or underground and often snuck them out through fellow members of the Resistance.Cognet contrasts the images with the present-day sites where they were taken, the film’s pointed silence broken only by birds or cars or even, jarringly, contemporary tourists taking their own pictures.The SS did its best to hide the truth of the camps, creating reams of propaganda and destroying as much evidence as possible.
So these photos are, in some cases, our only accurate glimpses into specific moments in time.As such, Cognet’s aim is to imagine as accurately as possible “the very instant [the photo] was able to capture.” He does this both by inviting archivists to scrutinize each one in minute detail, and by bringing historians to the vestiges of the camps where they were taken.
In the process, these experts also become detectives and archaeologists; they examine shadows to determine the time of day, study the ground to match where photographers stood, and review records to understand what they might have been experiencing as they held the camera.The result is a film that is not only a systematic history and an ongoing testament but also a kind of performance art.
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