Barry Bergdoll

Meyer Schapiro Professor of art history in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, NYC

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AFLOAT | The Shifting Landscapes of Delos through the eyes of Erieta Attali

Erieta Attali, one of the most commanding architectural photographers working today, began her career working on archaeological sites, including Delos, the mythic birthplace of both Apollo and Artemis. Indeed, no sooner had photography been invented in the Nineteenth century than it became a key tool for archaeologists, recording the layers progressively revealing ancient civilizations from architectural fragments and traces on the ground. But for Attali to make images of an archaeological site goes far beyond literal documentation to capturing a topographical vision, extending often to the horizon, or even on the open sea and the sense it gives us of the curvature of the earth.

Woodscapes: Erieta Attali on Kengo Kuma

Erieta Attali’s photographic projects develop over long committed years and through many, many  images. Yet for this, her second exhibition at the Byzantine Museum, she has distilled the profound  dialogue she entertains with architecture into a selection of fifteen photographs. These are images of  layered perceptions that capture the very essence of her approach to architecture and photography as  complementary experiences of shifting opticality.