Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Tormenta de Imágenes (Storm of Images)

Artist Maria Martinez-Cañas

Date1990

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions41 x 41 in. (104.1 x 104.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 50 7/8 × 50 1/8 in. (129.2 × 127.3 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineMuseum purchase and gift of the Photography Alliance of The Chrysler Museum of Art

Object number92.18

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DescriptionGelatin silver print. Black and white photographs of a bull fight arranged in an ovoid shape in the center of the piece, on a white-to-light-gray background with 5 thin horizontal stripes running the width of the piece. Two black shapes with triangular patterning are present on the left and right sides of the work.
Label TextMaria Martinez-Cañas American (b. Cuba, 1960) Tormenta de Imágenes (Storm of Images), 1990 Gelatin-silver print Museum purchase and gift of the Photography Alliance of the Chrysler Museum of Art 92.18 Born in Cuba, Martinez-Cañas left the island when she was only three months old. Through her photography, she searches for her Cuban heritage by using the fragments of family pictures and stories as inspiration for ideas. Photographing since the age of ten, Martinez-Cañas contact-prints her negatives after cutting and shaping them to create designs based on Caribbean vegetation, old documents, and maps of Cuba. Her work conveys a multi-layered language of personal symbols and references through formal, often abstract presentations. Edited By: GLY Edited Date: 11/07/2000 Approved By: GLY Approval Date: 11/07/2000