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PHOTOGRAPHS
Attie, Shimon
U.S. (1957 - )
Linienstrasse 137, Police Raid on Former Jewish Residents, Berlin, 1920
1992
Chromogenic color (Ektachrome) print
17 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (44.5 x 55.2 cm) image size; 21 x 24 in. (53.3 x 61 cm) sheet size
Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and The Boeing Company
FA 97.13

With regard to the Holocaust, we are often reminded not to forget. Shimon Attie’s photographic practice encourages just this kind of historical memory. Making slides from archival photographs of German Jews taken in the years before World War II, he then projects these images onto the surfaces of the buildings depicted in the original pictures. He re-photographs these composite scenes to create new pictures.

-- Label copy for The Photographic Impulse: Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, July 12 to November 10, 2002.

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