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

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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May 21, 2015

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Abelardo Morell, 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.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Pigment Print, Surreal, Conceptual, American, Photograph, Landscape, Mixed Perspective, Interior, Architecture, Contemporary

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