El altar de mi bisabuelo/ My Great Grandfather's Altar, from the series Santos y sombras/ Saints and Shadows
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Object Details
- Artist
- Muriel Hasbun, born San Salvador, El Salvador 1961
- 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
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Moore
- Copyright
- © 1997, Muriel Hasbun
- 1997
- Object number
- 2005.3.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- 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)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Still life\art object\photograph
- Object\written matter\book
- Object\other\candlestick
- Object\other\crucifix
- Record ID
- saam_2005.3.5
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk735d234be-83c3-4d1a-a151-628684a49282
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