Camera Obscura Image of Brookline View in Brady's Room
A darkened bedroom becomes a canvas in Abelardo Morell's striking gelatin silver print, where the outside world is projected upside-down across the walls, furniture, and surfaces through the camera obscura technique. The exterior neighborhood scene of Brookline bleeds seamlessly into the intimate domestic space, creating a dreamlike collision between the public and private. Morell's masterful use of light and shadow transforms an ordinary room into a vessel for wonder, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior reality.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Photographs
April 4, 2016
Spotted works by Abelardo Morell
Artists in conversation
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Japanese · b. 1948
Sugimoto uses long exposure photography to transform interior spaces and capture the passage of time and light in deeply conceptual black and white gelatin silver prints, sharing Morell's meditative exploration of how light fundamentally alters our perception of enclosed spaces.
Vera Lutter
German · b. 1960
Lutter famously converts rooms and large containers into giant camera obscuras to produce monochrome photographic images where exterior urban scenes are projected directly onto surfaces, making her work the closest contemporary parallel to Morell's exact technique and conceptual vision.
Floris Neusüss
German · b. 1937
Neusüss created experimental photograms and darkroom based works that similarly collapse the boundary between interior space and the external world, using light as a primary conceptual and physical material to produce dreamlike monochrome images with strong surrealist undertones.
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