Abelardo Morell
Camera Obscura Image of the Grand Tetons in Resort Room

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Artist Abelardo Morell (American, born Cuba, 1948)American, born Cuba, 1948

CultureAmerican

Titles

Camera Obscura Image of the Grand Tetons in Resort Room

Date1997

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 18 1/8 × 22 7/16 in. (46 × 57 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/16 × 23 15/16 in. (51 × 60.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Andy and Katherine Friedman Weiner and The Sandra and Leon Weiner Family Philanthropic Fund, courtesy of Andy and Katherine Friedman Weiner

Object number97.276

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by Latin American Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAbelardo Morell creates contemporary landscapes by utilizing a centuries-old, pre-photographic technology. He transforms an entire room into a camera obscura by covering the windows and other sources of light and positioning a lens in a small aperture, a technique resulting in the inverted projection of the outside onto the interior. In this way, the expansive outer world, such as the Grand Tetons, is brought into the comfort of a single room. Morell notes, “Artists, the good ones, tend to re-create the world for us.”
Provenance[Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1997.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed in pencil, verso: Abelardo Morell Camera Obsura Image of the Grand Tetons in Resort Room, 1997.

Signed in pencil, verso: Abelardo Morell

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