Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Abelardo Morell
Morell was born in Cuba during the Cold War, but his family later moved to New York in 1962. He is one of few artists who uses Camera Obscura. He projects images of cities such as Boston and New York inside rooms so that cover the walls and appear upside down. He blacks out the room and makes a 3/8 inch hole. He uses cliche verre, a "a technique of reproducing images which a glass plate coated with collodion is etched and photographed against a black background" as well as photograms.
The above quote is from:  https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/abelardo-morell?all/all/all/all/0

"Cuban-born photographer Abelardo Morell surveys both the intimate and the majestic in his photographs of American people, objects, and landscapes. Morell initially worked in the tradition of Lee Friedlander and Gary Winogrand, photographing street scenes in New York. His interests later shifted to a more intimate yet still pedestrian scale, capturing black-and-white images of domestic objects. In 1991, Morell returned to the street, shooting scenes on a grander scale with a self-constructed camera obscura. The return to this centuries-old technology allowed Morell to better understand the origins of his medium and capture cities at a scale he felt was appropriate for comprehending them. In recent years, he transformed his camera obscura into a mobile tent, moving it to locations throughout America to capture landscapes on a monumental scale." https://www.artsy.net/artist/abelardo-morell?

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CAMERA OBSCURA: VIEW OF CENTRAL PARK LOOKING NORTH – SUMMER, 2008
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CAMERA OBSCURA: IMAGE OF MILL ALLEY IN ROOM WITH DESK, LAWRENCE, MA, 2002
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CAMERA OBSCURA: THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IN BEDROOM, 1994
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CAMERA OBSCURA: IMAGE OF MILL ALLEY IN ROOM WITH DESK, LAWRENCE, MA, 2002
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CAMERA OBSCURA: TIMES SQUARE IN HOTEL ROOM, 2010
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CAMERA OBSCURA: 5:04 AM SUNRISE OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. ROCKPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 17TH, 2009
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CAMERA OBSCURA: VIEW OF EIFFEL TOWER IN THE HOTEL FRANTOUR, 1999
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CAMERA OBSCURA: IMAGE OF BOSTON’S OLD CUSTOMS HOUSE IN HOTEL ROOM, 1999
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