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Remembering Nagasaki

A separate award-winning web-site, Remembering Nagasaki, designed by Alison Sant, established and maintained by San Francisco’s Exploratorium Museum, is devoted to the international photographic exhibition, book and film entitled, Nagasaki Journey.

As the Nagasaki Journey exhibit took shape between 1992 and 1995, Rupert Jenkins contacted the San Francisco Exploratorium, founded by Robert Oppenheimer’s brother, Frank, to see if the Exploratorium wanted to be involved with our exhibition.

This approach was entirely in the hands of Rupert Jenkins, editor of the Nagasaki Journey book and Exhibition Consultant. Rupert in turn began working with Alison Sant then on staff at the Exploratorium.

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Shimon Attie, Berlin

Shimon Attie, by Timothy Greenfield Sanders

Between Dreams and History tells the story of the artist Shimon Attie as he creates his first work of public art in America. Prior to that installation, Attie, who studied art at San Francisco State College, created works of art in Europe dedicated to the idea of how to make memory visible in the present.
 
Attie’s breakthrough was his installation in Berlin, The Writing on the Wall. Attie researched photographs of Jews and Jewish businesses that existed in Berlin before their destruction by the rise of Nazi Germany. Attie then projected these images onto the actual buildings where the photographs were taken. Attie then photographed the resulting overlay of images.
 
The installation consists of the performance aspect of the actual projections, which required several hours to complete at night in extremely cold temperatures and the finished photographs that exist as prints and in Attie’s book, Sites Unseen.

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