Description:
Edition 16 of 30
Label Text:
Abelardo Morell’s photograph documents two places in a single space. The first is a room with a tile floor and a steel-framed bed covered with a loose bedspread. The second is a landscape, which is projected on a wall over the bed. The landscape is, in fact, outside of the room. Thanks to camera obscura, a discovery attributed both to Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) and Erasmus Reinhold of Wittenberg (1511–1553), it appears as an inverted image within the room.
When a pinhole punctures a darkened chamber—a box or a room—light passes through the hole and projects the exterior scene inside of the box. Photography can permanently fix this phenomenon on a sheet of light-sensitive paper, creating an otherworldly image.
Tags:
furniture; landscapes; darkness; smoke; clouds Subjects:
Clouds; Photographic gelatin; Smoke; Light and darkness; Landscapes; Furniture Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+2003.03 |
