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Abelardo Morell

Camera Obscura Image of Havana Looking Southeast in Room with Ladder, 2002

Description

Maker

  • Abelardo Morell, b. 1948, American (b. Cuba)

Title

Camera Obscura Image of Havana Looking Southeast in Room with Ladder

Year

2002

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • gelatin silver print

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Plate: 45.7 x 56.8 cm (18 x 22 3/8 inches)

Identification

Edition

3/30

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund, by exchange

Object Number

2005.84

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Historias

August 9, 2013 - January 5, 2014

Island Nations

October 29, 2004 - January 20, 2005

Morell’s camera obscura pictures present the public exterior world projected into intimate interior spaces, so that it becomes difficult to distinguish between what is real and what is imaged or imagined. The camera obscura technique employs a process whereby the photographer blocks all the light shining into a room from the outside world except for a single ray, which enters through a tiny hole. This narrow beam of light causes the panorama outside to be projected upside down on the room’s walls. The image is then captured photographically using an extremely long exposure. One of these photographs was taken at Morell’s home in Brookline, and the other was taken during a return visit to Cuba forty years after having emigrated to the U.S.A.

Estas fotografías presentan el mundo público exterior unido con íntimos espacios privados. Se hace difícil distinguir entre lo real y lo proyectado, o imaginado. La técnica de cámara obscura emplea un proceso en que el fotógrafo bloquea toda la luz que entra en un cuarto excepto un solo rayo de sol que entra a través de un pequeño agujero. Esta rayita de luz hace que el panorama exterior se proyecte piés arriba en las paredes del cuarto. La imagen es capturada entonces fotográficamente usando una extremadamente larga exposición. Una de estas fotografías fue tomada en la casa de Morell en Brookline, y la otra durante una visita a Cuba cuarenta años después de haber emigrado a los Estados Unidos.
Courtesy of the artist and Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York

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