04/09/2011

The blending of spaces:


Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: View of Central Park Looking North- Spring, 2010


Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: View of the Brooklyn Bridge in Bedroom, 2009


 
Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: View of the Manhattan Bridge-April 30th / Afternoon, 2010


Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: View of Times Square in Hotel Room, 2010


Abelardo Morell, tent camera obscura: View of park avenue south 2010


Abelardo Morell travels the world and converts full-size rooms (some spare, some ornately rococo) into immense camera obscura devices. He blacks out the windows, leaving a pinhole opening in one of them. Because of the nature of reflected light, the scene outside the window is projected upside down into the dim room. Then he photographs the results with a large-format view camera.
The effect is dizzying and delightful. And the photographs get better and better as you study them and soak in the exquisite overlapping details.
He reminds us that photography is more about how we see than the tools we use to create it



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