Railroad Collage
1959 collage by Boris Lurie juxtaposing a pin-up model undressing over the top of a wagon carrying bodies in the Buchenwald concentration camp
Railroad Collage is a controversial mixed media collage produced by Boris Lurie in 1959 which superimposed a pin-up girl onto a well-known liberation photograph, which featured a flatbed of stacked with corpses, juxtaposing the American consumer culture with the Holocaust. The collage which is considered to be an elaboration of Lurie's earlier work, Flatcar Assemblage by Adolf Hitler, is considered to be Boris Lurie most notorious and controversial work.
“Railroad Collage” enters the record as 1959 collage by Boris Lurie juxtaposing a pin-up model undressing over the top of a wagon carrying bodies in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Railroad, Collage and collage can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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