Susan Hiller: The J. Street Project by Susan Hiller

Berlin: Compton Verney, 2005. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Profusely illustrated. Still in publisher's shrink-wrap. .

Compton Verney, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Berlin: Compton Verney, 2005. Hardcover in dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. 6¾ - 7¾". 644 pages illustrated with numerous color photographic images throughout. Cited in Parr and Badger , Vol 3. Book Condition: Fine tight, clean copy in a Fine dust jacket. The" J. Street Project" is a film and photography project with depictions of streets and street signs in Germany that incorporate the word ‘Jude’ (German for ‘Jew’). Hiller found a total of 303 signs in streets, lanes, roads, avenues and alleys scattered throughout the country. The work focuses on the dissonance between these mundane, everyday signs and the memories they trigger of a genocidal history. (...) For this factual, indexical project Hiller maintained a neutral seriality in her approach. Cumulatively, however, it becomes clear that the signs are loaded with the memory of Jewish presence in the locations,… Read More