Shimon Attie

Alstadtstrasse 43, plate 7

  • Created:
  • 1991
  • Size:
  • 20 x 24 in.
  • Medium:
  • Ektacolor photograph, A/P
  • Location:
  • Aldrich Hall 1st Floor

In his very first piece in 1991, Attie projected archival photographs of prewar Jewish life onto the same or similar Berlin walls where they were originally taken, then reshot the scenes. Once more a man stood looking into the window of a Hebrew bookstore in what used to be Berlin's Jewish quarter. Shimon's photos were made to record not a memory but an absence.
-Kevin Kunkel, Columbia University

Books in the Collection

Sites unseen: Shimon Attie European projects:installations and photographs / with an introduction by James Young

The History of Another: Shimon Attie

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