Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
- The first monograph to cover the complete career of Abelardo Morell (b.1948)
- Morell's photographs transform everyday objects into magical, ominous and mysterious images, through the use of surprising perspectives and angles that distort size and distance
- Alongside many dramatic photographs, this book also features Morell's renowned 'camera obscura"--series - including his earliest photographs taken while at college, images of his family, illustrations of a new edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and photographs that explore household objects, books, maps and paintings as their subjects
Synopsis
Cuban-born Abelardo Morell (b.1948) began photographing his domestic environment after the birth of his son in 1986. Considering the world from a child's point of view, he photographed household objects from surprising perspectives to produce unfamiliar and disconcerting results that challenge the viewer's perception of reality. Morell continues to take photographs that explore reality and illusion and has created images with books, money, maps and paintings as their subject, alongside his best known series of camera obscura photographs.