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...Camera Obscura...
Camera Obscura’s sound and style seem plucked right from Tigermilk-era Belle & Sebastian, blended with the seminal acoustic indie-pop aesthetic identified with NME’s C-86 compilation and the Sarah 100. Informing the 60s sound and its topical fixation on childish love, Camera Obscura sing slyly ironic lyrics that show abounding self-deprecation. The chorus of lilting opener “Suspended From Class” demonstrates this compromise between form and content best: “I should be suspended from my class,” ethereal lead singer Tracy-Anne Campbell sings...
...Abelardo Morell’s 1994 photograph “Camera Obscura Image of the Empire State Building in Bedroom,” midtown Manhattan hangs upside down. The building of focus perches like a sleeping bat, suspended from the ceiling; its spire rests on a cot’s downy comforter. The sun glints off an upper-story window. A full-length mirror on the door of the room wraps the building as if around a corner, lending it a three-dimensional feel. The wall behind the bed reveals the clouds and the orb of the sun pushing through...
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...
...camera obscura series enchants with the sheer oddness of the resulting images, of skyscrapers bending at the angle where wall joins ceiling and three-deckers turned upside-down. Visual puns--like the Empire State Building, reclining suggestively across a hotel bed--sharpen the images. The very long exposures Morell used for these make for curious effects, such as the atomic radiance of the digital alarm clock in "Camera obscura image of Times Square in hotel room...