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Item Details
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CAMERA OBSCURA
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| By: |
Abelardo Morell, Luc Sante |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£40.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0821277510 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780821277515 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2004 |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Description: |
Abelardo Morell's enchanting camera obscura images blur the boundaries between interior and exterior worlds. The Empire State Building lies across a bedspread in a midtown Manhattan interior; the Tower of London is imprinted on the walls of a room in the Tower Hotel. Every image is full of surprises and revelations. |
| Synopsis: |
Abelardo Morell, author of last year's award-winning A Book of Books, makes magical camera obscura images in darkened interiors. The deceptively simple process--he blacks out all of the windows leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them--produces photographs of astonishing, complex beauty. Due to the nature of refracted light, the world outside his darkened room is projected, upside-down, onto the interior space within which he works, converting the room, in effect, into the interior of a camera. Morell then photographs the results with a large-format view camera, often requiring exposures of eight hours or more. Locations around the world were chosen for the interesting details and juxtapositions they would elicit--the Empire State Building lies across a bedspread in a midtown Manhattan interior; the Tower of London is imprinted on the walls of a room in the Tower Hotel; the countryside in rural Cuba, Morell's birthplace, plays across the walls of a crumbling interior that is rich with the patina of its own history. Every image is full of surprises and revelations. |
| Illustrations: |
60 duotones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Bulfinch Press,U.S. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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