About this artwork
Abelardo Morell employs the language of photography to produce visual surprise and wonder. To demonstrate the optical principles at work in photography to his students, Morell constructed a homemade camera from a cardboard box open at one end, a lens, and duct tape. Clumsy yet elemental, the contraption stripped the idea of a camera down to its essence. “This picture gave me the feeling that photography is in many ways still raw and unexplored,” Morell explained a few years later. “Making this picture was for me a way to rediscover the mystery of the medium and maybe to share it with others.”
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Status
- On View, Gallery 1
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Abelardo Morell
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Title
- Light Bulb
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1991
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- Image: 45.5 × 57.3 cm (17 15/16 × 22 9/16 in.); paper: 51 × 61 cm (20 1/8 × 24 1/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Comer Foundation Fund
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Reference Number
- 1994.40
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Copyright
- © Abelardo Morell, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.
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