Shimon Attie’s *The History of Another* presents a body of work in which historical photographs are projected onto public spaces and then photographed, so that two temporalities occupy the same frame. The publisher’s note describes Attie as creating photographic palimpsests of this kind for a number of years, trying to bring out buried layers of memory. The book, published by Twin Palms Publishers in April 2004, is a hardcover volume of 48 pages with 19 four-color plates, measuring 17 by 14 inches.

Attie has said that he is trying to give visual form to history and memory that remain latent in the architecture and landscape of the present, latent but not visible. Rather than treating projection as metaphor, he describes it as a physical embodiment of the process of memory itself: it appears to have substance and materiality, but in fact it is only photons, an illusion. Alexander Stille, quoted in the publisher’s description, frames the resulting images as having a ghostly, immaterial, ephemeral quality of fleeting memory.

The distribution record confirms the physical facts of the edition: hardcover, 48 pages, 17 by 14 inches, published April 1, 2004. D.A.P. is listed as the exclusive distributor. The distributor lists the book as out of stock, not as out of print, and the publisher catalog lists it as active. The publisher catalogue credits Shimon Attie as photographer; the accompanying text is by Alexander Stille.

For a reader, the book’s interest lies in the work and its format: a sequence of 19 four-color plates. The publisher’s description states that Attie projects historical images onto public spaces and then photographs them. The book is a hardcover volume published in April 2004 by Twin Palms Publishers, with 48 pages and 19 four-color plates.