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.”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Abelardo Morell
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Title
- Map of North America
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1996
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Inscriptions
- Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "ABELARDO MORELL"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "MAP OF NORTH AMERICA, 1996 / #18/30"
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Dimensions
- Image: 46 × 57 cm (18 1/8 × 22 1/2 in.); Paper: 51 × 61 cm (20 1/8 × 24 1/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund
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Reference Number
- 2001.67
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Copyright
- © Abelardo Morell, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.
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