Abelardo Morell (né en 1948), dont les photographies confèrent aux objets du quotidien un caractère magique et inquiétant, grâce à l’utilisation de perspectives et d’angles déformant les dimensions et les distances. Parallèlement à de nombreuses photographies spectaculaires, ce livre présente la célèbre série des camera obscura de Morell – des clichés réalisés avec une vitesse d’obturation lente sur lesquelles le monde est projeté sous forme d’image inversée sur les murs d’une pièce. Figurent également les premières photographies de l’artiste, prises à l’université, des images de sa famille, les illustrations d’une nouvelle édition d’Alice au pays des merveilles de Lewis Carroll et des photographies ayant pour thème des objets domestiques, des livres et des cartes. En introduction, un essai de Richard B. Woodward retrace l’évolution de l’œuvre de Morell et replace ses travaux dans le contexte de l’histoire de la photographie.
Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. He received his undergraduate degree in 1977 from Bowdoin College and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1981, and in 1997 was presented with an honorary degree from Bowdoin College. Morell has received a number of awards, including: a Cintas grant (1992), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), a Rappaport Prize (2006), and an Alturas Foundation grant in 2009 to photograph the landscape of West Texas. His work has been collected and shown in over seventy galleries and museums in the U. S. and abroad. Among these are the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Houston Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, and The Victoria & Albert Museum (London). In 2008, Morell was the Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery, where a retrospective of his work, Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell was on exhibit. Another retrospective, being organized jointly by the Art Institute of Chicago and The J. Paul Getty Museum, will be on view in the summer of 2013. His publications include a photographic illustration of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1998), A Camera in a Room (1995), A Book of Books (2002), Camera Obscura (2004), and Abelardo Morell (2005). More recently, the Museum of Modern Art published a limited edition book of his Cliché Verre images with a text by Oliver Sacks. Shadow of the House, an in-depth documentary about Morell's work and experience as an artist, has just been completed by filmmaker Allie Humenuk.
Concours ICP Infinity Awards 2011 : Elliott Erwitt Life Achievement, Alec Soth, Viviane Sassen...
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to announce the recipients of the 27th Annual Infinity Awards. Recognized around the world, the awards are widely respected as the leading honor for excellence in the field of photography. «Infinity Award recipients are dedicated to exploring photography’s cultural influence and how it opens new opportunities for communication and personal expression,” states ICP Ehrenkranz Director Willis E. Hartshorn. “This year’s recipients capture the importance of how photography shapes our sense of history in an ever more image-conscious world. We are pleased to recognize their achievements.»
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Each year ICP acknowledges the work of those whose powerful ima...Festival AIPAD 2011 - New York p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { }
The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from March 17 through 20, 2011. More than 75 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern, and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The 31st edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on March 16 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography.&...Exposition Exposition collective « Déconstruction photographique » à la galerie Topographie de l'Art Communiqué de presse
L’image fixe, l’image unique en d’autres termes, l’Image photographique, se suffit elle encore à elle même aujourd’hui ?
Toutes les théories ont été soulevées, étudiées, l’assujettissement de l’image photographique au réel n’est plus ... si on peut le résumer aussi vite et si c’est vrai. Le réel est quoi qu’il en soit une donnée composite de la dimension photographique. La photographie ne reproduit pas, mais travaille avec,avec le réel, quel que soit son genre, généré par des sels d’argent ou par pixélisation. L’image photographique se sert d’un mécanisme, d’une boite, d’un p...Exposition Qu'est-ce que la photographie ? : euh... bah euh... Le Centre Pompidou met à profit sa jolie galerie photo. Après Boiffard, sa nouvelle exposition pose une question impossible : « Qu'est-ce que la photographie ? » De leur propre aveu, les commissaires Clément Chéroux et Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska se sont efforcés de ne pas y répondre. Ils ont préféré associer des artistes comme Brassaï, Morris, Gerz, Mulas, Wall, Welling et consorts. Chacun a scruté un jour le concept de la photographie, à travers la lumière, le temps, le laboratoire, le reflet etc. Leurs propositions sont à découvrir jusqu'au 1er juin.
« C'est une exposition où l'on picore » précise d'emblée Clém...Exposition Exposition : Qu'est-ce que la photographie ? au Centre Pompidou Qu’est-ce que la photographie? Depuis son invention, cette question n’a cessé d’être posée.
En suivant ce fil rouge et une cinquantaine d’œuvres emblématiques d’une trentaine d’artistes, l’exposition présentée propose une traversée inédite de l’histoire de la photographie moderne
et contemporaine. Elle se tient dans un espace nouvellement ouvert au cœur du Centre Pompidou, la Galerie de photographies.
Florence Paradeis Les Images, 1995 © Adagp, Paris 2013
Puisée dans la riche collection du Centre Pompidou, qui compte près de 40 000 épreuves photographiques, une sélection d’œuvres des années 1920 à aujourd’hui permet d’é...Exposition OPEN RHAPSODY : a Journey into Photography and Video Collections Fragment de réalité, empreinte lumineuse, témoin support de notre histoire personnelle et collective, médium artistique, la photographie est actrice de nos pratiques sociales. Elle est une forme qui habite et construit notre regard, un support de nos projections imaginaires. Depuis sa création au milieu du XIXème siècle, elle a profondément modifié l’expérience de la vision, de l’espace et du temps, en fondant une nouvelle relation avec le continuum du réel. Tarek Nahas, souhaitant partager sa passion pour l’image photographique avec le grand public, a imaginé et organisé Open Rhapsody. Cette exposition présente un ensemble de photographies et de vidéos, comptant parmi les démarches artistique...Exposition Exposition : The Art of Arrangement We are pleased to announce a group exhibition dedicated to the genre of still-life in photography.
The term “still-life” originated in the 16th century in Netherlands and, by the 17th century, it had emerged as a distinct and specialised genre in Western painting. Many different types of still-life have developed since then, usually addressing the sensual perception of the viewer. Masters of still-life painting intended not only to create a hyper - realistic depiction of the world and to give a deceptively perfect illusion of reality, but to convey an often moral message through their use of certain symbols. For a vanitas theme, still-lifes often appear with aesthetically appealing luxury objects next to representations of mortality such as skulls, sand glasses, faded candles, withered flowers and broken g...Exposition ToledoContemporánea
La conmemoración del IV Centenario de la muerte del Greco tendrá también un lugar de privilegio para una gran exposición, ToledoContemporánea.
Comisonada por Elena Ochoa Foster y coordinada por IvoryPress, en esta exhibición se darán cita trece fotógrafos de prestigio internacional con instantáneas tomadas en la ciudad a lo largo de 2013.
Serán distintas visiones del Toledo de hoy, la ciudad que homenajea al Greco y que pone ya sus miras en un futuro en el que el legado del artista es uno de sus grandes pilares.
Será esta muestra la primera gran cita de los actos del Centenario con el público....Exposition Creating camera obscura images - ABELARDO MORELL
Abelardo Morell (born Havana, Cuba, 1948) is a Boston-based photographer. Morell and his family fled Cuba in 1962, moving to New York City. Morell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bowdoin College in 1977, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art in 1981. He is well known in the photographic community for creating camera obscura images in various places around the world and photographing them. Morell was awarded the Cintas Foundation fellowship in 1992 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1993.
...Exposition Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door
Photographer Abelardo Morell's inventive career is driven by creative discovery. He has conceived of new ways of looking at everyday objects and harnessed the basic principles of optics to create unexpected and mesmerizing photographs. The Universe Next Door is a major retrospective and presents more than one hundred of Morell's works, including a new series commissioned by the High.
Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell has gained international renown for works that employ the language of photography to explore visual surprise and wonder.
Morell has turned his camera on conveyors of cultural meaning—such as family, books, maps, money, and museums – in extensive series that explore the perception of images. He has experimented with techniques including photograms, still-life tab...Exposition Jackson Fine Art Presents Abelerdo morell: Tent Camera Obscur
Jackson Fine Art is proud to present Tent Camera Obscura, a solo exhibition of photographs by renowned artist, Abelardo Morell. This will be his second exhibition with Jackson Fine Art, running in tandem with Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door, a touring retrospective on view February 23rd through May 18th at the High Museum in Atlanta.
Over the past 25 years, Morell has created photographs that are full of magic and wonder, revealing unseen beauty in our everyday world. Citing classical and contemporary influences ranging from Giovanni Battista Piranesi to Ernest Hemingway to Minor White, Morell takes a modernist approach to his photographs, while exploring timeless themes and conveyors of cultural meaning such as family, books, maps, money and museums. His keen interest in optics and the mechanics of photo...Exposition Getty exhibition explores the Fantastic visual world of photographer Aberlardo Morell
Over the past 25 years, Abelardo Morell (American, born Cuba, 1948) has become internationally renowned for photographs that push the boundaries of the medium while exploring visual surprise and wonder. Throughout his career, he has looked at things with a fresh vision and investigated simple optics in myriad forms. Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door, on view October 1, 2013–January 5, 2014 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, traces the artist’s innovative work as he has continued to mine the essential strangeness and complexity of photography. The exhibition was organized by The Art Institute of Chicago, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
“Abelardo Morell is one of this country’s great contemporary photographers whose...Exposition Abelardo Morell presents his exhibition in Edwynn Houk Gallery
Edwynn Houk Gallery is delighted to announce the exclusive representation of Aberlardo Morell (American, b Havana 1948), whose pictures transform and transcend the ordinary and everyday. Morell will be the subject of a major retrospective exhibition, “The Universe Next Door,” which will start at the Art Institute of Chicago this June and tour to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, this fall and the High Museum in Atlanta next winter. Morell’s first exhibition at Houk Gallery will be at the Zürich space this June.
© Abelardo Morell, "Camera Obscura: View of the Manhattan Bridge, April 30th, Evening" (2010)
Always intrigued with optics and how an image is constructed, Morell began his photographic career within the most steadfast of genres, the still life. H...Exposition MICHAEL HOPPEN GALLERY Summer Show : A Gallerist's Choice
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce our summer show – ‘A Gallerist’s Choice’.
Delving into our substantial holdings of rare photographs at the gallery, we have selected a stunning array of beautiful and rarely seen images to savour and enjoy. This is a rare opportunity to buy these seldom seen images.
Works by Abelardo Morell, Peter Beard, William Klein, Alexander Rodchenko, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Roger Mayne, Desiree Dolron, Sarah Moon, Henri-Cartier Bresson and Fernand Fonssagrives among others are now hung, beautifully framed, in our first floor gallery.
The gallery opening hours are 9.30 am to 6.00 pm Monday to Friday, and 10.30 to 5.00 pm on Saturday. Special appointments can be made outside our hours of business.
...Exposition Right Through the Very Heart of It Right Through the Very Heart of It contrasts the icons and idiosyncrasies of New York, from the "vagabond shoes" to the "top of the heap," captured by some of the greatest photographers to roam these concrete streets.
Many of the medium's greatest innovators have made their name photographing the denizens and architecture that define our dear city. But such a diverse environment necessitates representing the grit as much as the glamour. In particular the exhibition will highlight sweeping vistas, architectural studies, street photography and street portraiture....Modifier l'image