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The Writing on the Wall: Almstadtstrasse (Formerly Grenadierstrasse 7): Slide Projection of Former Hebrew Bookstore, Berlin (1930)
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In The Writing on the Wall, Attie brought the ghosts of pre-World War II Jewish life in Berlin temporarily to life by projecting black-and-white slides of Jewish schools, bookstores, kosher butchers…

Contributor:

Shimon Attie

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1993

Subjects:

Photography, Conceptualism, Jewish identity, Holocaust, Memory

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography, History, Historical Writing
Photograph of blank city wall with projection of storefront over it and car in foreground.
Berlin Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
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Liebeskind’s design for a new extension to the Berlin Jewish Museum was the winner of a 1989 competition and was the first of his designs to be built. Its zigzagging shape was intended to evoke the…

Contributor:

Daniel Libeskind

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

2001

Subjects:

Art, Postmodernism, Cities, Memory

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Aerial photograph of angular buildings with trees and grass surrounding.