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Shimon Attie

Almstadtstrasse 5 (formerly Gendaierstrasse 24): Former Jewish residence and hat shop, ca. 1930

Maker

Shimon Attie (American, b. 1957)

Title

Almstadtstrasse 5 (formerly Gendaierstrasse 24): Former Jewish residence and hat shop, ca. 1930
from the series The Writing on the Wall, Berlin, Germany

Year

1993

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

chromogenic color print

Supports

Dimensions

Image: 44.9 x 54.9 cm (17 11/16 x 21 5/8 inches)

Identification

Edition

15/25

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2001.5

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 12: On Further Review

The RISD Museum’s twelfth issue of Manual focuses on uncovering narratives that were once central to objects’ histories but now have been systematically obscured, inadvertently overlooked, or otherwise lost.

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

For The Writing on the Wall project, I slide projected portions of pre-World War II photographs of Jewish street life in Berlin onto the same or nearby addresses where the photos were originally taken 60 years earlier. By using slide projection on location, fragments of the past were thus introduced into the visual field of the present. Thus parts of long-destroyed Jewish community life were visually simulated, momentarily recreated. The projections were visible to street traffic, neighborhood residents, and passersby. -Shimon Attie

Photography and Place
Contemporary Works from the Museum's Collection
Jan 23, 2004 – Apr 04, 2004

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Tombstone

Shimon Attie (American, b. 1957)
Almstadtstrasse 5 (formerly Gendaierstrasse 24): Former Jewish residence and hat shop, ca. 1930; from the series The Writing on the Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1993
Color chromogenic print
Image: 44.9 x 54.9 cm (17 11/16 x 21 5/8 inches)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 2001.5

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