Ania Bien

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Ania Bien (born 1946) is an American photographer. Born in

moved to the United States in 1958, where she studied painting and cultural anthropology.[1] Since 1973 she has lived in Amsterdam.[2]

Works

One of Bien's early projects, Hotel Polen, referred to the

Amsterdams Historisch Museum in 1988.[6]

Some of Bien's work is concerned with Franz Kafka; one of her photographs has her place her hand on a portrait of Kafka's, in response to a note he wrote in 1924 to Dora Diamant, "Place your hand on my forehead for a moment, so I can gain courage." Her 1989 installation Past Perfect asked "what would have happened had [Kafka] not died in 1924, but instead had come as a refugee to America in the late '30s."[7] It gained her international recognition,[2] and was also shown in Jerusalem.[7]

Bien is interested in war, discrimination, and the plight of refugees.[2] She contributed photographs from a centre for asylum seekers in Haarlem to a 1994 book on refugee children in such centers in the Netherlands, Ontheemde kinderen.[8]

Bien has also exhibited at Portfolio Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland,[9] and the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam.[2][10]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-931788-10-6
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  2. ^ a b c d e "Home: Ania Bien" (in Dutch). Joods Historisch Museum. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  3. ^ Cooper, Emmanuel (April–May 1995). "Rev. of Warworks: Women, Photography and the Iconography of War". Creative Camera. p. 41.
  4. ISBN 978-0-7190-4401-4
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  5. Brooklyn Rail
    . Retrieved December 10, 2011.
  6. Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    . Retrieved December 10, 2011.
  7. ^ a b Levine, Angela (11 October 1991). "Photo-based art". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  8. ^ Haijtema, Arno (2 January 1995). "Fotografen portretteren jonge vluchtelingen in asielzoekerscentra: Kinderen in een niemandsland". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  9. OCLC 30555690
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  10. OCLC 55990120
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