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Camera Obscura Image of the Grand Tetons in Resort Room

Camera Obscura Image of the Grand Tetons in Resort Room

© Abelardo Morell

Camera Obscura Image of the Grand Tetons in Resort Room
Camera Obscura Image of the Grand Tetons in Resort Room
ArtistAmerican, 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
Object Type
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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