Abelardo Morell

Camera Obscura Image of Houses Across the Street in Our Living Room

1991

Black and white photograph of an interior room with a rocking chair, framed pictures on the wall, and a floor lamp. The room is overlaid with shadows of trees and the exterior of a building, suggesting a double exposure or reflection effect.

Not on view

Date
1991

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 20 × 23 7/8in. (50.8 × 60.6 cm) Image: 18 1/16 × 22 7/16in. (45.9 × 57 cm) Frame: 24 15/16 × 30 7/8 × 1 1/2in. (63.3 × 78.4 × 3.8 cm)

Accession number
2000.19

Edition
AP 1/3

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Anne and Joel S. Ehrenkranz

API
artworks/12525

Exhibitions

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

June 26–Sept 22, 2002
Insites: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art

May 25–Aug 22, 2000

Abelardo Morell
13 works in the collection, 6 exhibitions

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Abelardo Morell

Camera Obscura Image of Houses Across the Street in Our Living Room

1991

Exhibitions

Abelardo Morell 13 works in the collection, 6 exhibitions

Abelardo Morell
13 works in the collection, 6 exhibitions