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Emilio Martínez Poppe (he/him)

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To produce Civic Views, Emilio Martínez Poppe visited more than twenty Philadelphia government agencies, interviewed employees, and took multiple photographs of the views from their office windows, which he has reproduced at a one-to-one scaleand installed at a height that replicates the experience of looking out of each window. The project was inspired in part by the oldest surviving photograph in the United States, taken in 1839 by a worker at the US Mint in Philadelphia from an office window.

Para producir Vistas cívicas, Emilio Martínez Poppe visitó más de veinte agencias gubernamentales de Filadelfia, entrevistando a los empleados y tomando múltiples fotografías de las vistas desde las ventanas de sus oficinas, que ha reproducido en escala uno a uno e instalado a la altura que replica la experiencia de mirar al exterior de cada ventana. El proyecto se inspiró en parte en la más antigua fotografía que se conoce en los Estados Unidos, tomada en 1839 por un trabajador de la US Mint [agencia de acuñado de moneda] en Filadelfia, desde la ventana de una oficina.

Philadelphia Housing Authority, South, 2024 

A city street with cars and building construction seen through a tall office window.
A city street with cars and building construction seen through a tall office window.

Emilio Martínez Poppe, Philadelphia Housing Authority, South, 2024, from the series Civic Views, 2024. Polypropylene photographic prints subsurface mounted to acrylic-and-aluminum composite with aluminum frames, 96 × 59 × 1/4 in. (243.8 × 149.9 × 0.6 cm). Collection of the artist. © Emilio Martínez Poppe. Image courtesy the artist. Photography by Emilio Martínez Poppe

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