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Abelardo Morell

 

Morell, Abelardo (b. 1948), Cuban-born American photographer. Brought to the USA by his family, Morell was educated at Bowdoin College and Yale. He has taken perception and camera obscura photography to a new level, projecting, for example, cityscapes onto interior walls of children's bedrooms and printing the results. Influenced in part by magic realism in Latin American literature, Morell's work has visually explored the world of child perception, the lives of paintings on museum walls, and the physicality of books, including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art.

— Tim Troy

Bibliography

  • Morell, A., A Book of Books (2002)
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Abelardo (Abe) Morell (born Havana, Cuba, 1948) is a Boston-based photographer.

Morell and his family fled Cuba in 1962, moving to New York City. Morell earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College in 1977, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art in 1981. He received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Bowdoin in 1997.

Morell is well known in the photographic community for creating camera obscura images in various places around the world and photographing these. Morell was awarded the Cintas Foundation fellowship in 1992 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1993.

Morell is currently a professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art. He is represented by Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC.

A documentary on elements of Morell's life and work, Shadow of the House, was released in 2007. [1]

Books by Morell

  • A Camera in a Room. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
  • Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye. Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Calif. 1999.
  • A Book of Books. Bulfinch, 2002.
  • Camera Obscura. Bulfinch. 2004.
  • Abelardo Morell. Phaidon. 2006.

References

  1. ^ Shadow of the House (2007)

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