Object number1999.48

Camera Obscura Image of Central Park Looking Northwest in Office

Date1999

Artist Abelardo Morell (American, born Cuba 1948)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

EditionEdition 7 of 30

DimensionsImage: 18 x 22 1/2 in. (45.7 x 57.1 cm)
Sheet: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn verso, signed lower left edge in pencil: ABELARDO MORELL

InscribedOn verso, by artist, lower right edge in pencil: CAMERA OBSCURA IMAE OF CENTRAL PARK / IN OFFICE, 1999; lower left edge: #7/30; by unidentified hand, lower right corner: FLLAC 1999.48

BibliographyHistories of Photography (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2003), p. 3 ProvenancePurchased from Bonni Benrubi Gallery

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Exhibition HistoryHistories of Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, July 5 - September 21, 2003;

Ways of Unseeing in Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 26 - December 22, 2022
DescriptionBlack and white image of the corner of a room with an umbrella hanging on the wall, a chair at right, and framed items on the wall at left. An inverted, transparent image of Central Park with trees, water and buildings projects within the interior of the room.

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