£141.05

Routledge Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall - Photography Book

Price data checked 6 days ago

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£141 today · previous high £141 · all-time low £119

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 85 days • 85 data points (No recent data available)

Historical
Generating forecast...
£141.05 £116.62 £121.95 £127.28 £132.61 £137.94 £143.27 09 April 2026 30 April 2026 21 May 2026 11 June 2026 02 July 2026

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 85 days • 5 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
8 days 7 days 33 days 23 days 14 days · current 0 8 17 25 33 £119 £131 £137 £138 £141 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £137 (33 days, 38.8%)

Price range: £119 - £141

Price levels: 5 different prices over 85 days

Description

Explore the deep connection between history and visual art with Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics. Published by Routledge, this work examines the images from Attie's 1991-1993 installation in Berlin's Scheunenviertel district. The text treats these images as a form of memorial activity and a way to inhabit history through visual means. By looking at the palimpsestic associations between the past and the present, the book explores how ghostly appearances can reconnect us to those lost to history. It addresses the collective cultural knowledge of the destruction of communities, including both Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Berlin. This book serves as a profound study for those interested in how photography functions as a tool for memory and a witness to historical events.

Key Features

Analyzes the 1991-1993 installation by Shimon Attie located in Berlin's Scheunenviertel district.

Explores the concept of photography as a memorial activity and a way to inhabit history.

Examines the relationship between the dead of the past and their presence in the modern world.

Discusses the cultural knowledge surrounding the loss of Berlin's Jewish and non-Jewish communities.

Provides a theoretical look at how images function as a palimpsest of historical memory.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
21 July 2010
Listed Since
16 April 2010

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity
95% match

Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity

Fordham University Press

£88.00 17 Apr 2026
Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Cultural Memory in the Present)
95% match

Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Stanford University Press

£63.49 16 Jun 2026
Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time (Memory Studies: Global Constellations)
95% match

Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time (Memory Studies: Global Constellations)

Routledge

£97.00 04 Jul 2026
Politics of Memory: Israeli Underground History - Routledge
95% match

Politics of Memory: Israeli Underground History - Routledge

Routledge

£131.87 25 Apr 2026
Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge (Palgrave Film Studies and Philosophy)
95% match

Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge (Palgrave Film Studies and Philosophy)

MACMILLAN

£88.75 17 Jun 2026
On Jean Amery: Philosophy of Catastrophe
94% match

On Jean Amery: Philosophy of Catastrophe

Lexington Books

£105.80 29 Apr 2026
The Future of Memory
94% match

The Future of Memory

Berghahn Books

£40.32 04 Jul 2026
Memory and the Built Environment in 20th-Century American Literature: A Reading and Analysis of Spatial Forms
94% match

Memory and the Built Environment in 20th-Century American Literature: A Reading and Analysis of Spatial Forms

Bloomsbury Academic

£34.45 04 Jul 2026
The Generation of Postmemory – Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Gender and Culture Series)
94% match

The Generation of Postmemory – Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Gender and Culture Series)

Columbia University Press

£74.00 12 Apr 2026
Viewing Photography in Post-Dictatorship Latin America: Visual Interruptions, 1997-2016
94% match

Viewing Photography in Post-Dictatorship Latin America: Visual Interruptions, 1997-2016

MACMILLAN

£92.18 12 Jun 2026
Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits (Critical South)
94% match

Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits (Critical South)

Polity

£43.17 23 Apr 2026
Memory
94% match

Memory

University of Michigan Press

£61.01 17 Mar 2026
The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film
94% match

The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

£58.33 07 Jul 2026
Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting (Cultural Heritage Studies)
94% match

Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting (Cultural Heritage Studies)

University Press of Florida

£53.72 07 May 2026
Empathetic Memorials: The Other Designs for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
94% match

Empathetic Memorials: The Other Designs for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

MACMILLAN

£64.76 25 Apr 2026
The Language of Images: The Forms and the Forces (Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis)
94% match

The Language of Images: The Forms and the Forces (Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis)

Springer

£107.05 10 Jun 2026
Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age: 21 (Making Sense of History, 21)
94% match

Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age: 21 (Making Sense of History, 21)

Berghahn Books

£88.91 05 Apr 2026
The Presence of the Past: Essays on Memory, Conflict, and Reconciliation (St. James's Studies in World Affairs)
94% match

The Presence of the Past: Essays on Memory, Conflict, and Reconciliation (St. James's Studies in World Affairs)

Academica Press

£52.76 10 Mar 2026
Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012 (Cities and Cultures)
94% match

Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012 (Cities and Cultures)

Amsterdam University Press

£74.00 09 Mar 2026
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance (Cultural Memory in the Present)
94% match

Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Stanford University Press

£70.36 01 May 2026
Fragile Spaces: Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities: 8 (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts, 8)
94% match

Fragile Spaces: Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities: 8 (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts, 8)

De Gruyter

£88.13 07 Mar 2026
Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives
94% match

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives

Cambridge University Press

£91.08 12 Apr 2026
Nelly Sachs: The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation
94% match

Nelly Sachs: The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation

De Gruyter

£98.99 01 Apr 2026
Memory & Oblivion: Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art held in Amsterdam, 1–7 September 1996
94% match

Memory & Oblivion: Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art held in Amsterdam, 1–7 September 1996

Springer

£394.99 08 May 2026