biography / bibliography
SHIMON ATTIE
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS)
2011
Baskind, Samantha and Larry Silver. Jewish Art: A Modern History. London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2011: 184, illustrated.
Shimon Attie: MetroPAL.IS. (exhibition brochure). Ridgefield: Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2011.
2008
The Attraction of Onlookers: Aberfan – An Anatomy of a Welsh Village, Parthian Books, UK
2004
The History of Another: Projections in Rome, Twin Palms Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
1998
Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie - European Projects, Edition Braus, Heidelberg, Germany (in cooperation with Verve Editions, Burlington, VT). Editions in English and German.
1993
The Writing on the Wall: Projections in Berlin’s Jewish Quarter; Shimon Attie -Photographs and Installations, Edition Braus, Heidelberg, Germany. Editions in English and German.
1992
Shimon Attie: Finstere Medine, Galerie im Scheunenviertel, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (PERIODICALS)
2011
Schwendener, Martha. “In These Portraits, a Challenge to Labels of ‘Sitter’ and ‘Artist’.” The New York Times, 30 April 2011.
2009
History as Image, Image as History, Routledge
2008
After Photography, Fred Ritchin, W. W. Norton, NY, NY
Searching for Sebald: Photography After W.G. Sebald, ICI Press, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Great Art of the Western World, Ori Soltes, The Teaching Company Lecture Series
2006
Launching the Imagination, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY
2003
A History of Modern Art, H.H. Arnason, 5th ed. Laurence King Publishing, London, UK
2002
Art Tomorrow, Edward Lucie-Smith, Vilo Publisher, Paris, France
Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing, Dora Apel, Rutgers University Press
The Shattered Past, Michael Geyer, Princeton University Press
Remembering What One Never Knew, Susan Gubar, Indiana University Press
2000
At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, James E. Young, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Remembering the Lower East Side, ed. by Hasia Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth Wenger, University of Indiana Press
The "Goldhagen Effect": History, Memory, Nazism – Facing the German Past, ed. by Geoff Eley, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI
Harper's Magazine, New York, NY, February issue
1999
Harper's Magazine, New York, NY, March issue, page 23
Locating Identity, or the Ways Architecture Captures Memory, Shelley Hornstein, Akademie der Kunst press, Berlin, Germany
Vectors of Memory, Nancy Wood, Berg University/NYU Press
Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, Ellen Handy and Willis Hartshorn, Little, Brown, and Company, New York, NY
1998
Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz, Lisa Saltzman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
1997
New Art, 3rd edition, Harry Abrams, Inc., New York, NY
The Gypsie in Me, Ted Simon, Random House Publishers, New York, NY
Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory, Marianne Hirsch, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Other People's Troubles, Jason Sommer, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
German Dis/continuities, Duke University Press
1995
Life Magazine, 4 page color spread, New York, NY, November issue
Life Magazine, 8 page color spread
Atlantico Magazine, 5 page color spread, Madrid, Spain, May issue
Katalog, Museum for Fotokunst, Odensee, Denmark, Winter issue
1994
Katalog, 8 page color spread, Museum for Fotokunst, Odensee, Denmark, Fall issue
L'Image Objectif, Paris, France, July issue
IN ("German-American Cultural Review"), Bonn, Germany, Winter issue
Humboldt Magazine, Bonn, Germany, Fall issue
Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History, Michael Andre
Bernstein, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
Das Bittere Kraut, Marga Miners, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany
Deutschland Magazine, German Press Office, Bonn, Germany, January issue
1993
The Other Side of the Street, Martin Beradt, MacKenson Verlag, Berlin, Germany
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Weekend Magazine, 6 page color spread with 8 page article, Oct. 29 issue
Living Magazine, Braunschweig, Germany
1992
Daniel Libeskind: Extension to the Berlin Museum with the Jewish Museum Department, edited by Kristin Feireiss, Ernst & Son, Berlin
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (BOOKS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES)
2008
Modern Contemporary: Art Since 1980 at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Art and Death, Chris Townsend, Tauris Publishers, London, UK
2007
Collection Photographie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Déchirures de l'Histoire, Dix-Neuf Contemporary Art Center, Montebeliard, France
“Great Art of the Western World,” Ori Soltes, The Teaching Company Lecture Series
2006
Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, MA
“An American in Aberfan”, BBC Website
“Shimon Attie at the Miami Art Museum,” Elisa Turner, p. 190, ARTnews, November issue
“Life, ripe and robust: Exhibits sift and savor it”, Elisa Turner, Miami Herald, July 30
“Shimon Attie Changes History: Memory Pictures”, Jeffrey Cudlin, Washington City Paper, April 1
Natale, Michele, “An Uncommon Vision”, The News and Observer, Sunday May 21, 2006
2005
“The Heroes of Telemark: Hydro Allgories, Shimon Attie”, KUNST
Magazine, 8 page color spread, Fall issue, Oslo, Norway
Cudlin, Jeffrey, “Memory Pictures”, Washington City Paper, April 1-7
2004
Vita Brevis 1998-2003: History, Landscape and Art, Steidl Publishers/The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, The Corcoran Museum of Art/Merrell Publishers, London, UK
After Images: Kunst als soziales Gedaechtnis, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Karfeld, Marlilyn, “Memory Resonates in Stunning Photos at CIA”, Arts, Entertainment and Dining, December
Rudolph, Ellen, Angle: A Journal of Artists and Culture, December
Christian, Barbara, “CIA Exhibits Artist Shimon Attie’s Images of Rome”, Currents, November
Litt, Steven, “If Walls Could Talk”, The Plain Dealer, November 25
Aletti, Vince, “The Short List”, The Village Voice, September 29
Vogel, Carol, “Inside Art”, The New York Times, Friday January 9
“At 100, Still Asking ‘Why Should It Be Easy?’”, Julie Salamon, Fine Arts Section, The New York Times, Jan. 21
“More than Modigliani,” Lindsay Pollock, ARTnews, March, p. 50
“Interview with Shimon Attie by Irit Batsry”, Artwurl on-line Magazine,March issue
Masterworks of the Jewish Museum, Yale University Press, New Haven
2003
Attie, Shimon, “Writing on the wall, Berlin, 1992-93: Projections in Berlin’s Jewish Quarter”. Art Journal, Fall 2003 pgs. 74-83
Genocchio, Benjamin, “Using Illumination to Truly See”, The New York Times, Sunday December 28, 2003.
Mendelsohn, Meredith, “Universal Studio,” ARTnews, May, Vol. 102, No. 5, p. 40.
Isaacson, Philip, “Attie’s Writing on the Wall’ Photographs a Moving Event,” Maine Sunday Telegram, Sunday, March 9, p. 3E.
2002
Short Stories, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Johnson, Ken, The New York Times, Friday, January 18, p. E4.
Schambelan, Elizabeth, “Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman,” Art in America, June, p. 125.
Bischoff, Dan, “Exhibit Opens Door to World of Symbol,” Sunday Star-Ledger, April 21.
Zimmer, William, “Seeing Messages, Some Subtle, in a Door,” The New York Times, Sunday May 5, p. 16
Morano, Marylou, “Before Opening a Door, Think of it as Artwork,” The Westfield Leader and The Times of Scotch Plains – Fanwood, Thursday,May 9, p. 21.
Kuspit, Donald, “Mystery and Majesty: Doors In Recent Art.”
2001
Theatres du Fantastique, Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse, The Cartier Foundation, France
Photography as Public Art, Fotgrafer, Oslo, Norway
2000
Open Ends: Contemporary Art at the Modern since 1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Threshold, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
ATTACK, The Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Young, James E., “Shimon Attie’s Acts of Remembrance, 1991-1996,” At Memory’s Edge: After Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art & Architecture, pgs. 62-89.
Kleeblatt, Norman L., “Persistence of Memory,” Art in America, June, p. 96-103.
Ollman, Leah. “Projecting the Past Onto the Prestent,” Los Angeles Times, Sunday, February 13, pgs.59, 84.
Dorsey, Catherine., “There’s No Place Like Home,” Port Folio Weekly, October 24.
Erickson, Mark St. John. “Exhibit That Gets You Where You Live,” Daily Press, Sunday, October 15
de Lisle, Rosanna. “Recovered Memory,” HQ, No. 68, January - February, p. 14-15.
Harper’s, February, p. 35.
1999
Silver, Joanne. “History Repeats,” Boston Herald, Wednesday, December 29, p.53.
“Public Faces and Public Sculptures,” Boston Globe, Living Arts, December 29.
Silver, Joanne. “Memory in Waves,” Boston Herald, Friday, November 19, p. S5 & S11.
Temin, Christine. “Shimon Attie Brings Haunting Images to ICA,” The Boston Globe Friday, December 24, pgs. D1 & D12
Baker, Kenneth. “Photographing Phantoms: Shimon Attie captures ghostly projections of memory in his latest work,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, p. B3, B10.
Harper’s, March, p.43.
Krauss, Nicole. “Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman and Rivington Street,” Art in America, February, p. 109.
Humphrey, David. “New York Fax: Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman,” Art issues, January/February, p. 35.
1998
Carr, C. “The Memory Wall: Shimon Attie Reveals the Collective
Unconscious of the Lower East Side,” The Village Voice, November 10, p. 59.
Helfand, Glen. “Neighborhood Watch,” ARTnews, November, p. 42.
Jacobs, Karris. “Metaphysical Graffiti,” New York Magazine, October 26, p. 16.
Hamilton, Anita. “Spiritual Graffiti,” Time Out New York, October 22-29, p. 53.
Helfand, Glen. “Tension and Loss: Shimon Attie,” The Advocate, October 27, p. 83.
Hoffman, Wayne. “Writing on the Wall,” New York Blade, October 16, p. 23.
Eskin, Blake. “Shimon Attie’s American Graffiti,” The Forward, October 16, p. 11-13.
Wallach, Amei. “Writing in Light on the Tenement Walls,” The New York Times, September 13, pp. 107, 114.
Caldwell, Robin. “A view of life through ‘Political Pictures,’” Press-Republican, September 24, p.3.
Rabinowitz, Cay-Sophie. “Shimon Attie, Christian Boltanski, Joe Nicastri: From Remembrance to Renewal,” Art Papers, September-October.
Awodey, Marc. “Drawing Conclusions? Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art,” Seven Days, September 23, p. 33.
Woodward King, Meredith. “International Artists Address Social and Political Issues,” UVM Record, September 16.
Torres, Ana Maria. “Architecture,” New York Arts, December, p. 31.
1997
Grafton, Anthony. “Shimon Attie’s The Writing on the Wall,” The New York Review of Books, August 14.
Salus, Carol. “Shimon Attie’s Sites Unseen,” Atlantic Journal of the Crossroads, Wesley University, Summer.
Mason, Joyce. “Accidental Encounters With Art,” C Magazine, May-August, p. 31.
Kuspit, Donald. “Unconsciously, Always An Alien and Self-Alienated: The Problem of the Jewish American Artist,” New Art Examiner, April, Volume 24, No. 7, p. 30.
1996
Hirsch, Marianne. “Past Lives: Post-memories,” Exile and Creativity issue, Poetics
Today, Duke University Press.
1995
Reality-Intention-Media, Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany.
After Auschwitz: Artist Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art, Northern Center for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, U.K.
Hirsch, Marianne. Family Frames: Photography and Narrative in the Postmodern, Harvard University Press.
“Ghosts of the Ghettos: An Artist’s Plans to Commemorate Europe’s Refugees, Past and Present,” The London Times, January 25.
“Pushing for German Awareness,” Ha’aretz, March 9, Tel Aviv, Israel.
“He Brought the Ghosts Back to Berlin’s Jewish Quarter,” The Jerusalem Post, March 1.
“An Artist Projects a Ghostly Past,” cover story, The Forward, New York, NY April 21.
Lewis, Jo Ann. The Washington Post, January 15.
1994
La Ville - Vision Urbaine Exhibition Catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Exhibition Catalogue, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
The Art of Memory Exhibition Catalogue, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY.
Hagen, Charles. “Mixed Images Show the Mutability of Time,” The New York Times, December 9.
Shapiro, Susan. “Haunted by History,” The Sunday Book Review, The NewYork Times, September 25.
Conkelton, Sheryl. “New Photography 10,” Museum of Modern Art Magazine, Fall issue, New York.
“Sunday on Review,” The London Independent, May 8.
Baker, Kenneth. Artnews, November, New York, NY.
Artforum, April, New York, NY.
Solnit, Rebecca. Art Issues, July, Los Angeles, CA.
Postcard, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
British Journal of Photography, May 25, London.
San Francisco Chronicle, April 28.
Politiken, August 20, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Katalog, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1993, published by the Museum for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Liberation, September 28, Paris, France.
Sasische Zeitung, November 9, Dresden, Germany.
Politiken, March 7, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tages Zeitung, March 10, Hamburg, Germany
Tages Zeitung, November 9, Dresden, Germany