Tent-Camera Image on Ground: View of Mount Moran and the Snake River From Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Tent-Camera Image on Ground: View of Mount Moran and the Snake River From Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Artist
Abelardo Morell
(born 1948)
Date2011
MediumArchival pigment print
Dimensionssheet: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
matted: 38 1/2 × 48 in. (97.8 × 121.9 cm)
Framed: 39 1/4 × 48 3/4 in.
matted: 38 1/2 × 48 in. (97.8 × 121.9 cm)
Framed: 39 1/4 × 48 3/4 in.
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.78
Signedverso, l.r.: Abelardo Morell
Accession number
2020.78
On View
Not on viewLabel TextAbelardo Morell creates photographs using a camping tent as a camera obscuracamera obscura or “dark chamber.” Utilizing the darkened interior of his tent, Morell admits a small hole of light, which projects an image of the surrounding landscape onto the floor. The final photograph shows both the projected scene as well as the texture of the ground.
Abelardo Morell crea fotografías usando una tienda de campaña como camera obscuracamera obscura o “cámara oscura.” Utilizando el interior oscuro de su tienda, Morell deja entrar la luz por un pequeño agujero, la cual proyecta una imagen del paisaje circundante en el suelo. La fotografía final muestra tanto la escena proyectada como la textura del suelo.
Markingsverso, l.r.: ABELARDO MORELL / Tent-Camera Image on Ground: View of Mount Moran / and te Snake River From Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton / National Park, Wyoming, 2011 / Edition 3/8 [label]
verso, u.l.: [Optium Museum Acrylic label]
verso, l.c., on stretcher: LAU 126855 38-1/4x47-3/4 [label]
