Dalla giustapposizione alla correlazione. Su fotografia e memoria in Atlas di Gerhard Richter

The article discusses issues of traumatic memory and their relationship to contemporary art, focusing in particular on the work of Gerhard Richter. His Atlas - the heterogeneous collection of photos and other visual documents gathered by the artist since the early Sixties and organized in hundreds of boards – articulates a form of visual montage that outlines important implications related to the question of historical memory in post-war Germany. Through the analyses of some of the first boards of the Atlas, the article aims at reassessing some aspects of the photography/memory debate often evoked in relation to Richter’s photographic work.