Welcome to New York

Item

Surek, Dogan. 2007. Welcome to New York. Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries, Urban Books, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/urban-books/item/3189

Title: Welcome to New York
Creator: Surek, Dogan
Date: 2008
Description: Title Description - In this series of carefully executed hand colored and mounted laser prints and cut contact prints on colored card stock, Surek tells the story of a sort of cosmopolitan angel who, after arriving in the city, gradually transforms into a skyscraper topped with the sign "Welcome to New York." The series of images provides a literal map of the urban space through the photographs and overhead street maps, as well as structuring a symboic mapping of the identity of the "angel," through the gradual evolution of the lines of longitude and latitude which compose her body. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
Catalog record.
Call Number: N7433.4.S87 W45 1996
Link to Catalog Record: https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b2981222~S2
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Publisher: Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries
Tags: Artist supplied tags
Artist Keywords:; Tags supplied by Dr. Jana Harper, of Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Sam Fox Keywords:; Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library Keywords: Artists' books
Library Keywords: New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works

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