Overhead/Underfoot: The Topographical Perspective in Photography

July 1–Sept 25, 2005

Crumpled paper map folded into a basin with a flat blank area resembling a lake.
Crumpled paper map folded into a basin with a flat blank area resembling a lake.

Abelardo Morell, Map of North America, 1996. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 20 1/16 × 23 15/16 in. (51 × 60.8 cm) Image: 18 1/8 × 22 7/8 in. (46 × 58.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 99.9

Overhead/Underfoot: The Topographical Perspective in Photography was curated by Dana Miller.

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