ABELARDO MORELL (b. 1948)

Camera Obscura Image of the London Eye, Inside the Royal Horse Guards Hotel, 2001

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ABELARDO MORELL (b. 1948)
Camera Obscura Image of the London Eye, Inside the Royal Horse Guards Hotel, 2001
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, dated and numbered '10/30' in pencil (verso)
image 18 1/8 x 22 3/8in. (46 x 56.7cm.)
sheet 20 x 24in. (50.7 x 61cm.)
This print is number 10 from the edition of 30.

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Lot Essay

Born in Cuba, Abelardo Morell travels the world and converts a variety of rooms (some spare, others elaborately furnished) into immense camera obscura tableaux. Using a tiny pin-hole, the exterior world is projected upside down in the room's interior. Morell then photographs the resulting layered scene with his 8 x 10 view camera.

Morell has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, notably the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1993 and the International Center for Photography's Infinity Award in 2011. He has exhibited widely.

Gift of Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York.

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