In this contribution to photographic criticism and psychoanalytic literature, Ulrich Baer traces the hitherto overlooked connection between the experience of trauma and the photographic image. Instead of treating trauma as a photographic theme, Baer examines the striking parallel between those mome...more
Born in Germany and now a resident of New York City, Ulrich Baer lived in California, Massachusetts and Connecticut where he attended Harvard College and Yale University. He was a Varsity oarsman at Harvard and earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale. He is the editor of Rilke's Letters on Life, a literary theorist who has written on the representation of trauma in poetry and photography, and a fiction writer who has published a collection of short stories set in contemporary Chi...more
