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Map of North America

A work made of gelatin silver print.
© Abelardo Morell, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

1996

Artist:

Abelardo Morell
American, born Cuba 1948

About this artwork

Abelardo Morell has long been interested in what he calls “symbolic paper”: maps, money, and books, among other forms. Like photographs, maps employ conventions to represent spatial information. In his pictures of maps, Morell often gives these two-dimensional diagrams their own topography, transforming the plans into something akin to what they represent. As he has explained, “It’s important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation—to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.”

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Abelardo Morell

Title

Map of North America

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1996

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "ABELARDO MORELL"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "MAP OF NORTH AMERICA, 1996 / #18/30"

Dimensions

Image: 46 × 57 cm (18 1/8 × 22 1/2 in.); Paper: 51 × 61 cm (20 1/8 × 24 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund

Reference Number

2001.67

Copyright

© Abelardo Morell, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.

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