I was just requested by Abelardo Morell to be his friend on facebook, which I’m not convinced is really him as he’s got over 3,000 friends, but it made me revisit his work. He got a lot of blog space when his color camera obscura pictures became public. I can’t say I was a fan of that work, but have loved some of his black and white ones and some of his older work. I never really knew his other images until I got to Pratt, I find it impressive that he can make such varied work that all seem to feel similar. I guess that’s the challenge as your career grows, or at least to hope our work will seem cohesive after 30 years.
The link between these two images is apparent when you know the basic workings of a camera obscura. I remember Jed Devine telling me about his work when I was a freshman, and I was in awe of the simplicity of his idea but the beauty of the image. It’s making me want to shoot B&W again. The images below hold my attention longer when placed in the context of his entire collection.
This last image seems to be the most interesting take on his camera obscura and the reversal of image as affected by light.
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