Camera Obscura: View of the Brooklyn Bridge in Bedroom
The photograph captures the iconic Brooklyn Bridge projected upside down onto the walls and bedding of a darkened hotel room through a camera obscura effect, blending the grandeur of the urban landscape with the intimate domesticity of the interior space. Abelardo Morell transforms the room itself into a camera, allowing natural light to paint the exterior world across everyday surfaces in soft, ghostly tones. The resulting image creates a dreamlike tension between the public and private, the monumental and the mundane.
- Medium
- Archival pigment print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Photographs
May 21, 2015
Spotted works by Abelardo Morell
Artists in conversation
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Japanese · b. 1948
Sugimoto uses long exposure photography to merge architecture and interior spaces with external phenomena, creating similarly dreamlike and conceptually layered images where time and light dissolve boundaries between inside and outside worlds.
Thomas Struth
German · b. 1954
Struth masterfully investigates the relationship between public architectural spaces and intimate human experience through large scale photography, sharing Morell's interest in how grand structures interact with personal and domestic contexts.
Vera Lutter
German · b. 1960
Lutter literally converts rooms and large containers into camera obscuras to photograph urban and industrial landscapes, producing ghostly negative images that directly mirror Morell's technique of projecting the exterior world onto interior surfaces.
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