Camera Obscura
by Abelardo Morell, Luc Sante
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Author: Abelardo Morell, Luc SanteEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-01
ISBN: 0821277510
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Bulfinch
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Book Review: Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
I find it hard to review books like this because, let's be honest, it is a picture book for the most part with very little text. The beauty of this book will be in the eye of the beholder. I really enjoyed this book though. I had only passing knowledge of camera obscura when I purchased this book but since buying it and seeing some of the really amazing photos inside I have found a new favorite hobby. I don't think my pictures have been quite as impressive, haha, but the fact that this book could inspire me to get off my butt and try something new speaks volumes I think. Simply put, it's a beautiful book with some really thought provoking pictures and even months later I still flip through it from time to time and show it to all my friends.
Summary of Camera Obscura
Abelardo Morell, author of last year's award-winning A Book of Books, makes magical camera obscura images in darkened interiors. The deceptively simple process--he blacks out all of the windows leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them--produces photographs of astonishing, complex beauty. Due to the nature of refracted light, the world outside his darkened room is projected, upside-down, onto the interior space within which he works, converting the room, in effect, into the interior of a camera. Morell then photographs the results with a large-format view camera, often requiring exposures of eight hours or more. Locations around the world were chosen for the interesting details and juxtapositions they would elicit--the Empire State Building lies across a bedspread in a midtown Manhattan interior; the Tower of London is imprinted on the walls of a room in the Tower Hotel; the countryside in rural Cuba, Morell's birthplace, plays across the walls of a crumbling interior that is rich with the patina of its own history. Every image is full of surprises and revelations.Artists, A-Z Books
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