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Shimon Attie: The Attraction of Onlookers | 
 enlarge | Authors: Melanie Doel, Chris Townsend, Shimon Attie
Creator: John Humphrys
Publisher: Parthian
Category: Book
List Price: $80.00
Buy New: $50.40
You Save: $29.60 (37%)
Sales Rank: 7339274
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 108
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 12.8 x 11 x 0.7
ISBN: 1905762402
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.9942975
EAN: 9781905762408
ASIN: 1905762402
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
In October of 1966, a coal waste tip slipped down the mountainside above the Welsh village of Aberfan and buried its school, killing 116 children. Within hours, the worldwide news media descended upon the village, stripping away any sense of deserved privacy and rendering "the village that lost its children" a perennial destination for disaster tourism. Shimon Attie's sensitive portrayal of Aberfan today takes the form of a five-channel high definition video installation and a body of still photographs in which the villagers "perform" being themselves, in terms of their social or occupational roles. Thus, Attie subsumes the story of the disaster below a contemporary art historical narrative that helps normalize how the village is represented. This volume presents both photographs and video stills. It comes with a DVD featuring the award winning BBC documentary An American in Aberfan, as well as a short film representing the installation.
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