
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.
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- Auction House · Phillips
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May 21, 2015
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