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Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

Ammo Box Landscape

To create Ammo Box Landscape, Guillermo Galindo mapped musical notation onto photographer Richard Misrach's landscape photographs of the United States-Mexico border, which he then printed onto an ammunition box. Galindo often cites the term "prosopopeia" to describe his idea that objects can communicate stories from imaginary, absent, or deceased people. By uniting seemingly diverse images into one musical score, Galindo evokes these stories from the border though symbolic language and visual data.

ArtistGuillermo Galindo, born 1960
Date2015
MediumPigment print
Dimensions30 x 44 in. (76.2 x 111.8 cm)
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2017.17
ClassificationPhotograph
Provenance(Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2017
On ViewNo
Ammo Box Landscape30 × 44 in.Tennis Ball2.7 in. diameter

This artwork's face covers about 181× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.