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PDF (1.3mb)  Who is the artist? Abelardo Morell What is the name of the artwork? Camera Obscura Image of Courtyard Building, Lacock Abbey, England, March 16, 2003 What materials were used? Gelatin silver print Where is the artist from? He was born in Cuba, but lives in the United States When was the artwork made? 2003  Abelardo Morell creates images that are called camera obscura. Camera Obscura means dark chamber (room). In a regular room, Morell puts black plastic over all the windows to make it completely dark but leaves a tiny hole in one of the windows for light to pass through. The result is the outside world reflected upside down on the wall and a combined outdoor image with the indoor image. Morell also takes pictures of household objects as if it were seen through the eyes of his son, Brady, to show how children see the adult world. With his subjects and styles, Morell’s pictures always make you think about how things are and how we see them.  In this picture, Lacock Abbey is the subject of the photograph. Lacock Abbey was the home of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), who was one of the inventors of photography. He invented the process to create more than one photograph from a single negative. He also created the first book that included photographs and wrote about the many ways photography could be used by people. For example, Talbot said photographs of an important object could be sent to experts in other countries so that they could research the object without ever looking at it in person. What parts of this photograph are actual objects inside the room? If you made a camera obscura out of your classroom, how would you do it? What would you see projected onto the wall from the outside? Talbot said you can use photographs to study an object. How else can you use photographs?  Camera Obscura - The original camera obscura was a large, walk-in room pierced with a single, small hole in one of its four walls. Light rays from a bright object outside of the camera obscura enter the small hole and an inverted image appears on the opposite wall. Gelatin silver print - Technical name for black and white photographs. The paper is coated with a light-sensitive silver salt solution in gelatin. |
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Abelardo Morell Cuba, born 1948 Camera Obscura Image of Courtyard Building, Lacock Abbey, England, March 16, 2003 Gelatin silver print, 2003 Gift of the artist 2003.007.001 © Abelardo Morell © Museum of Photographic Arts  |
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1939 World War II begins 1948 Abelardo Morell was born in Cuba 1963
1975 Desktop computer invented 1981
1997 First Harry Potter book published 1998 Morell photographs Camera Obscura Image of Courtyard Building, Lacock Abbey, England, March 16, 2003 |
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