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Andrea Robbins and Max Becher

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Robbins and Becher employ photography, video and other digital media to document what they term "the transportation of place," situations in which one place or culture strongly resembles another distant one. Their conception of place often includes such notions as location in time, positions of
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School of Art, both in New York City. Max Becher received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, and his MFA from
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ideology and cultural identity. Past subjects of their work have included German colonial towns in
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The work of Robbins and Becher has been exhibited and collected by art museums such as the
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Cultural Center Foundation, La Romana, Dominican Republic (affiliated with
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Frankurter Allgemeine."Einmal Indianerhäuptling sein." Catrin Lorch, 2005
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that has been copied and rebuilt around the world; the relocated
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The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography"
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Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Award, 2005
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Max Becher
Cooper Union School of Art
Hunter College
Cooper Union School of Art
Rutgers University
Photography
Video art
Contemporary art
Conceptual art
Cooper Union
Cooper Union School of Art
Hunter College
Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers University
Namibia
Native Americans
freed American slaves in the Dominican Republic
Brooklyn Hasidic headquarters building
London Bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona
The Venetian, Las Vegas
African American
cowboys
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
Jewish Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Maison européenne de la photographie

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