Hannah Altman : We Will Return To You
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Hannah Altman
Hardcover / 11 x 8 inches / 144 Pages
Drawing from a breadth of Yiddish literature and Jewish texts, We Will Return to You considers how storytelling is translated and transformed through photographs by evoking the enigmatic, ritualistic, and multi-layered world of folklore.
From mouth to ear to pen to performance, Jewish myths evolve across the diaspora, braiding themselves into both past and future, echoing their origins and never entirely replicating. These photographs mirror this mode of continuity. The images tell tales of looming tension, cyclical repetition, unsettled environments, and open-ended truths that are punctuated by ritual and iconography. With a distinct focus on sun-soaked gestures, objects, and anxieties, the photographs sprawl across the referential and the fictitious to form a visual language that stretches and shifts across lands, generations, and the stories that give it meaning.
Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist based in Boston. Her work has been exhibited at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Filter Photo, Dresden Museum, Blue Sky Gallery, Candela Gallery, and the Griffin Museum of Photography, among others. Publications where her work has appeared include the New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, and British Journal of Photography. Altman is represented by Abakus Projects in Boston.
Pre-Orders Available Now - Shipping in Late March, 2025
Hannah Altman
Hardcover / 11 x 8 inches / 144 Pages
Drawing from a breadth of Yiddish literature and Jewish texts, We Will Return to You considers how storytelling is translated and transformed through photographs by evoking the enigmatic, ritualistic, and multi-layered world of folklore.
From mouth to ear to pen to performance, Jewish myths evolve across the diaspora, braiding themselves into both past and future, echoing their origins and never entirely replicating. These photographs mirror this mode of continuity. The images tell tales of looming tension, cyclical repetition, unsettled environments, and open-ended truths that are punctuated by ritual and iconography. With a distinct focus on sun-soaked gestures, objects, and anxieties, the photographs sprawl across the referential and the fictitious to form a visual language that stretches and shifts across lands, generations, and the stories that give it meaning.
Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist based in Boston. Her work has been exhibited at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Filter Photo, Dresden Museum, Blue Sky Gallery, Candela Gallery, and the Griffin Museum of Photography, among others. Publications where her work has appeared include the New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, and British Journal of Photography. Altman is represented by Abakus Projects in Boston.
Pre-Orders Available Now - Shipping in Late March, 2025
Hannah Altman
Hardcover / 11 x 8 inches / 144 Pages
Drawing from a breadth of Yiddish literature and Jewish texts, We Will Return to You considers how storytelling is translated and transformed through photographs by evoking the enigmatic, ritualistic, and multi-layered world of folklore.
From mouth to ear to pen to performance, Jewish myths evolve across the diaspora, braiding themselves into both past and future, echoing their origins and never entirely replicating. These photographs mirror this mode of continuity. The images tell tales of looming tension, cyclical repetition, unsettled environments, and open-ended truths that are punctuated by ritual and iconography. With a distinct focus on sun-soaked gestures, objects, and anxieties, the photographs sprawl across the referential and the fictitious to form a visual language that stretches and shifts across lands, generations, and the stories that give it meaning.
Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist based in Boston. Her work has been exhibited at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Filter Photo, Dresden Museum, Blue Sky Gallery, Candela Gallery, and the Griffin Museum of Photography, among others. Publications where her work has appeared include the New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, and British Journal of Photography. Altman is represented by Abakus Projects in Boston.
