Abelardo Morell - Camera Obscura

"Something strange and wonderful happens when light enters a dark space through a tiny opening. Aristotle described the phenomenon back in the fourth century B.C. Leonardo in Renaissance Italy sketched the process. In Coney Island and other 19th-century seaside resorts, tourists lined up to see the magical results. Shift to a Boston classroom, the year 1988. Cuban-born Abelardo Morell, teaching an introductory photography course at an art college, was curious to step back in time. On a sunny day, he covered the classroom windows with black plastic, making the space as dark as a cave, cut a dime-size hole in the material, and told his students to watch. Almost instantly the back wall came alive like a movie screen, its surface covered with a fuzzy image of people and cars moving along Huntington Avenue outside. Then the double take: The image was upside down, sky on floor, ground on ceiling, the laws of gravity seemingly gone haywire.

Morell had turned his classroom into a camera obscura, a dark chamber, the Latin name for perhaps the earliest known imaging device and the ancestor of the photographic camera."

By Tom O’Neill Photograph by Abelardo Morell
Read more at: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/05/camera-obscura/oneill-text 

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"Cuando hablamos de fotografía, hablamos de elemento sensible para referirnos al sensor o a la película que recibe la imagen, para posteriormente almacenarla, pero si hemos trabajado con cámaras esteanopénicas habremos visto que con casi cualquier cosa podemos hacer una cámara fotográfica que funciona.

Esa es la idea que utiliza Abelardo Morell para crear las imágenes de su serie Camera Obscura, en la que utiliza habitaciones completas como cámaras, cerrando completamente cualquier entrada de luz, y dejando un pequeño agujero en la ventana. Así, la imagen del exterior se proyecta en una pared, y el fotógrafo registra esa escena (con los muebles de la habitación mezclados con el paisaje del exterior) usando una cámara de gran formato"

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