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English: Original caption: "HOLLAND HOUSE BADLY BURNED. WS/57. Holland House, Lord Ilchester's historic 17th. Century house, has been damaged during the recent air raids on London. An oil bomb started a fire on one of the towers and a 'Molotoff breadbasket' and a shower of incendiaries fell on the building. Firemen saved the east wing from complete destruction, but the rest of the house is a shell. Holland House, just off Kensington High-street, was London's great Whig salon in the 18th century and the home of Charles James Fox, and also earlier, of Joseph Addison, founder of the Spectator. Photo shows - The famous library containing a number of valuable and historical books was completely wrecked. FOX. OCT. 23rd. 40. [7]"[1]
The spectacle of the three men shown inspecting books in the library was likely staged for propaganda purposes.[2] |
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| Author | Harrison for Fox Photos Limited[1] (collection later acquired by Hulton Archive, subsequently purchased by Getty Images[2]). Image was first released Crown Copyright by Press and Censorship Bureau of en:Ministry of Information (United Kingdom).[2] |
References
- ↑ Whittier-Ferguson, John (27 Oct 2014) Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature, Cambridge University Press Retrieved on 26 March 2019.
- ↑ a b Cadava, Eduardo (2001). "Lapsus Imaginis": The Image in Ruins. October. MIT Press. Retrieved on 26 March 2019. "That the image is most probably staged can be confirmed by comparing it to the image of the bombed-out library that appeared only one day earlier in the London Times. In the photograph of the destroyed library that was reproduced in the October 22, 1940, issue of the Times (p. 6), the books along the walls are much more disheveled, there is more debris scattered across the ground, there are no people inhabiting the space, and the atmosphere of the scene is strikingly more dark and ominous. In addition, the bombing of the library was not announced in the Times until over three weeks after the event. While this delay could be attributed to the disarray and chaos resulting from the blitz, it is also most certainly an effect of censorship: the British Ministry of Information was reluctant to announce the destruction of some of the city's most revered and historically significant buildings. Both of these incidents-the reproduction of the image in the London Times and the delay with which it appeared-suggest that the image before us was, among other things, staged to combat the psychological effects of the blitz: the Germans may have tried to destroy our books, our buildings-the symbols of our civilization-but we are still reading."
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