Word: abelardo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ABELARDO MORELL AND THE CAMERA...
During the 16 hours that Abelardo Morell's camera was trained on Times Square, thousands must have passed through the field of his lens. But not one is recorded. The city of his photograph is completely deserted, and the reason for this lies in Morell's famous and peculiar method of photography...
...Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye, on view at the MFA through April 11, is the first major traveling exhibition of this contemporary photographer's work. Morell, born 1948 in Cuba, has concentrated for the past decade on several projects besides his camera obscura series; his domestic still lifes, his explorations of books, maps and paintings and his illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are also presented. All his photographs are large-format silver gelatin prints. His photographic technique is traditional, but he is nimbly inventive in his manipulation of the objects he chooses to photograph...
...Contemporary Interactions" is almost misnormer when it comes to describing the work of Abelardo Morell. A professor at the Massachusetts College of Art, Morell manipulates light through one of the oldest optical tricks in the book--you have never seen wallpaper like this. An inverted Manhattan skyline spans the walls of an empty room in one large photograph; on the other side of the gallery's entrance, grayscale clapboard houses cascade behind the dimpled shadows of a rumpled bed. The result is spellbinding. Forget the brainless integration of disparate images accessible to anyone with Adobe Photoshop; Morell wields a technique...
...hours at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The collection in this museum is not allowed to be changed, according to the stipulations of Isabella Stewart Gardner's will. But, strangely enough, it is now featuring, for a limited time only, an exhibition of the photography of resident artist Abelardo Morell. "Face to Face" is a collection of photographs of the works in the museum which Morell has juxtaposed and compressed with wide-angle lenses to give the collection a whole new side. Take that, Isabella! 280 The Fenway. (617) 566-1401. Students...