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Sophie Calle
The Hotel, room 47, March 21983

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Color photograph of a hotel room with a burgundy-red bed against wood-paneled walls, above four columns of printed diary text beneath the heading 'ROOM 47'
Gelatin silver print grid of nine black-and-white photographs documenting a hotel room interior: an ornate mirror, a double bed with baroque headboard, slippers on the floor, an open book in a bathtub, rumpled white bedding, toiletries on a bathroom shelf, a toilet with towels, a closed umbrella on a patterned bedspread, and a crumpled shirt with a lighter.
Artist or Maker
Sophie Calle
Title
The Hotel, room 47, March 2
Place Made
France
Date Made
1983
Medium
Dye coupler print, gelatin silver print, text
Dimensions
Frame (a-b) Panel framed): 40 1/8 × 55 7/8 × 1 in. (101.92 × 141.92 × 2.54 cm) Overall: 80 x 56 x 1 in. (203.2 x 142.24 x 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number
M.2003.132a-b
Classification
Collages
Collecting Area
Photography