Humberto Mayol
94.785

94.785

© 1987 Humberto Mayol

94.785
94.785
CultureCuban
Date1987, printed 1992
PlaceCuba
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 × 11 11/16 in. (19.7 × 29.7 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (27.6 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mary Porter
Object number94.785
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

A neighbor’s living room, spied furtively one day when the door was open, caught Humberto Mayol’s eye. He persuaded its occupants—an older couple and their twenty-something son—to allow him to make their portraits, each in their chosen place. The woman posed beneath walls filled with pictures—a few framed family snapshots and diplomas, a photo- graph of the woman’s younger self in military uniform from the revolutionary years, and then a personal pan- theon that represented her belief system—portraits of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos, and José Martí alongside Marx and Lenin, and, largest of all, Jesus.

Un día, a través de la puerta semiabierta de sus vecinos, Humberto Mayol descubrió una sala que llamó su atención. Convenció a sus ocupantes —una pareja de edad avanzada y su hijo veinteañero— para que le permitieran retratarlos en lugares de su elección. La mujer posó frente a paredes llenas de imágenes, que incluían instantáneas de la familia, diplomas enmar- cados y una fotografía suya de joven en uniforme militar revolucionario. Junto a ellas, un panteón personal ilustra su sistema de creencias: retratos de Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos, José Martí, Marx, Lenin y, el más grade, de Jesús.


ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 1994.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom left below image in ink "La[illegible], Cuba 1987"
bottom right below image in ink "H Mayol"

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