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Memory Warp I
1980 · Twenty-five gelatin silver prints
overall 32 × 32" (81.3 × 81.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Esther Parada
Artist
WA-00030527
Photography
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None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
1
Works in Collection
31
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Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Esther Parada was an American photographer and artist who assembled family photographs and archival materials into mixed-media montages and collages that questioned the documentary photograph as a vehicle for objective truth. Working from the 1970s onward, she treated personal imagery as a site where identity, memory, and subjective interpretation collide across generations. Her practice positioned the found photograph not as historical evidence but as a malleable text open to recontextualization and reinterpretation.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Artworks (1)
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1 published of 31 catalogued · 27 with image
- MoMA1 publishedof 2 catalogued1 img
- + 1 more source · 29 catalogued, not yet published
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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