Shimon Attie

Steinstrasse 22, Berlin: Slide projection of Jewish residents (1932)

  • Created:
  • 1994
  • Size:
  • 30 x 40 in.
  • Medium:
  • Ektacolor print, edition 2/3
  • Location:
  • Aldrich Hall Lower Level

Concerned with questions of memory, place, and identity, Attie gives visual form to both personal and collective memories by introducing histories of marginalized and forgotten communities into physical landscapes of the present. He has described his work "as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath."
- Museum of Contemporary Photography

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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