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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Camera Obscura Image of Houses Across the Street in our Bedroom.

1991
gelatin silver print
45.6 x 57.2 cm.
Museum Purchase: Ford Motor Co. Fund
GEH NEG: 45714
95:2068:0001

NON-GEH NUMBER: # 19/30

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Morell, Abelardo. --A Camera in a Room.-- Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. p. 39.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 729.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Through The Lens", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, June 22, 1996 -.//
"New Treasures: Recent Acquisitions to the Collections", US, NY, Rochester February 20 - June 6, 1999.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil)(signed ?) "Abelardo Morell" "Camera Obscura Image of Houses Across the Street in our Bedroom, 1991"

copyright, Abelardo Morell

NOTES: Catalogued 10/95, DZ. Edition number, 19/30, from acquisition documents. "A professor of art at Massachusetts College of Art, Morell is recognized for a series of photographs produced in the early 1990s that combine a camera view with that of the camera obscura.... Here the inverted image of houses outside Morell's bedroom is cast on the interior bedroom wall. In this image, the public space of the street contrasts with a private sanctuary of the bedroom. Morell is a contemporary photographer whose work suggests how the camera, from its beginning in the 14th century to today, is the world's most powerful and persuasive tool of information and memory." [Therese Mulligan, Curator of Photography, GEH, 10/95]

SUBJECTS:
interior, bedrooms
artifact, camera obscura images