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Artist:
Muriel Hasbun, born San Salvador, El Salvador 1961  Search this
Medium:
gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
image: 17 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. (44.7 x 35 cm) sheet: 19 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (50.5 x 40.3 cm)
Type:
Photography-Photoprint
Date:
1997
Exhibition Label:
Hasbun captures pictures within pictures and overlays multiple exposures in one print to explore the events that compelled her family to migrate. Portraits arranged in an altar-like fashion memorialize relatives long gone. The central photo in one scene shows her great-grandfather in front of the Greek Orthodox altar he built in El Salvador after he fled there from Palestine. The other photograph seen here is an ethereal portrait of Ester, her Jewish great-aunt who survived the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
Topic:
Still life\art object\photograph  Search this
Object\written matter\book  Search this
Object\other\candlestick  Search this
Object\other\crucifix  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Moore
Copyright:
© 1997, Muriel Hasbun
Object number:
2005.3.5
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Department:
Graphic Arts
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk735d234be-83c3-4d1a-a151-628684a49282
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_2005.3.5