Shimon Attie: The History of Another - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931885311 ISBN 13: 9781931885317

Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

From the publisher: "For a number of years, Shimon Attie has created his own photographic palimpsests, projecting historical images onto public spaces and then photographing them, trying to bring out buried layers of memory. . . 'I am trying to give visual form to history and memory which is latent in the architecture and landscape of the present, latent but not visible,. . . I have always been interested in memory,' he says. 'I think a lot about the past, about my own past, and about the collective more generally, about the memory of entire communities. More than my therapeutic training, I think my temperament made me interested in revealing layers of a buried or repressed past.' The projected image, Attie says, is a physical embodiment of the process of memory itself. 'Like memory, the projection appears to have substance and materiality, but in fact it does not--it is only photons,' he says. 'It's an illusion.' The projections of historical photographs onto actual sites in the present have a ghostly, immaterial, ephemeral quality of fleeting memory-Alexander Stille."

About this edition

• Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1931885311
• ISBN 13: 9781931885317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 48