© Abelardo Morell. Courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Tent-Camera Image on Ground: View of Mount Moran and the Snake River From Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Abelardo 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.
ArtistAbelardo Morell, born 1948
Date2011
MediumArchival pigment print
Dimensions30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Signedverso, l.r.: Abelardo Morell
Mark(s)verso, 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]
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.78
ClassificationPhotograph
Provenance(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2020
On ViewNo
This artwork's face covers about 165× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.