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Thursday 16 March 2023, 03:30 PM • Milan

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Abelardo Morell

(1948)

Camera obscura image of Havana. Looking South East in room ladder, 2002

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 4.000 - 5.000

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Information

Gelatin silver print
cm 51 x 60,7 (cm 46 x 57 picture) | 20 x 23.8 in. (18 x 22.4 in. picture)
Edition 5 of 30
Signed, dated and titled in pencil on the verso

Provenance

Photographies, Christie's Paris, November 8th 2018, lot 60

Literature

A. Morell, Camera in a room PB, Smithsonian, Washington, 1995
The technique used by Cuban photographer Abelardo Morell is both ancient and contemporary, simple and complex. He transforms, in fact, a completely darkened room into a huge camera by using a pinhole located on a window as a lens. Through this the external image is projected onto the opposite wall where the sensitive paper captures it.

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