Mulackstrasse 32: Slide Projections of Former Jewish Residents and Hebrew Reading Room, 1932, Berlin
1992
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chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 44.4 × 54.7 cm (17 1/2 × 21 9/16 in.) sheet: 50.7 × 60.75 cm (19 15/16 × 23 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Julia J. Norrell in honor of Hilary Allard and Lauren Harry)
Accession Number
2015.19.5081
Art Historical Context
In Shimon Attie's poignant chromogenic print *Mulackstrasse 32: Slide Projections of Former Jewish and Hebrew Reading Room, 1932, Berlin* (1992), ghostly images from 1932 are projected onto the facade of a building in Berlin's Scheunenviertel neighborhood. This work captures Attie's signature "Writing on the Wall", where he revived traces of the city's pre-Holocaust Jewish life by overlaying archival photographs onto their original locations decades later. The projections evoke the faces of former Jewish residents and a Hebrew reading room, blending past vibrancy with present absence. Created...