He punctured a hole in one side and inserted a lens. In the early 1990s, wanting to demonstrate photography’s fundamentals to a class he was teaching, Morell placed a cardboard box that once held bottles of sweet vermouth on its side on a table. And that’s how Morell, who started out as a street photographer in New York, began working this way.
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Today, one of the first things many photography students are taught is how to blackout a room to create a camera obscura - or (same principle) a pinhole camera. Mo-tzu described how light from an illuminated object that passed through a pinhole into a dark room projected an inverted image of that object inside the room. The earliest written account of a camera obscura was provided by the Chinese philosopher Mo-tzu in about 400 B.C. Morell needed it to negate as much light as possible because he makes photographs using a “camera obscura” - literally, a dark room. (Marin Driguez/Agence VU for The Washington Post) RIGHT: Abelardo Morell at work with his assistant, Max Labelle. LEFT: Abelardo Morell, left, and his assistant, Max Labelle, set up the tripod of his tent-camera for a project on the outskirts of Arles, France. He was very much alone.Ībelardo Morell at work with his assistant, Max Labelle. When the 34-year-old Van Gogh moved to Arles from Paris in early 1888 hoping to establish a community of artists, he walked around the town’s environs carrying everything he needed to paint outdoors on his back: a folding easel, canvas, brushes and tubes of paint. He had no idea what would come out of it. This year, Morell wanted to use Van Gogh as a kind of medium in his process. Best of all, they reanimate a dialogue between photography and painting that seemed to have peaked in the 19th century. His works combine intentional decisions with chance effects. He has found a way to superimpose poetic or spectacular views on mundane, nondescript surfaces (dirt roads, muddy fields, dry grass), encouraging us to see the very ground we walk on with fresh eyes. Morell’s method, which is continually evolving, cannily combines ancient insights about optics with the most advanced photographic equipment. He is an experimentalist with a keen and often witty sense not only of the history of photography, but also of the history of art. Over several decades, he has established himself as a top photographer, regularly appearing in exhibitions and museum collections across the country. Morell was born in Cuba and came to the United States as a teenager. (Marin Driguez/Agence VU for The Washington Post) A portrait of contemporary artist Abelardo Morell with a tent-camera, a device he created to merge landscapes with the texture and composition of the ground where he places his camera and tripod.
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