Abelardo Morell

The Universe Next Door

Elizabeth Siegel, Brett Abbott, Paul Martineau

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Yale University Press
25 June 2013

Individual photographers

A riveting retrospective of the imaginative photographs created by contemporary artist Abelardo Morell

Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell (b. 1948) has earned international praise for his images that use the language of photography to explore visual surprise and wonder. Born in Havana, Cuba, Morell came to the United States as a teenager in 1962 and later studied photography, earning an MFA from Yale University. He gained attention for intimate, black-and-white pictures of domestic objects from a child’s point of view, inspired by the birth of his son in 1986, as well as images in which he turns a room into a giant camera obscura, projecting exterior views onto interior spaces; and photographs of books that revel in their sensory materiality.

In more recent years, he has turned to color, exploring the camera obscura with a painterly delight and innovating a tent camera that projects outdoor scenes onto a textured ground. Across his career, Morell has approached photography with remarkable wit and creativity, examining everyday objects with childlike curiosity. The first in-depth treatment in fifteen years, this handsome and important book examines Morell’s career to the present day, including his earlier works in black-and-white and never before published color photographs from the past decade. An essay by Elizabeth Siegel, along with a recent interview with the artist and an illustrated chronology of his life and works, offers a riveting portrait of this contemporary photographer and his ongoing artistic endeavors.

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition Schedule:

The Art Institute of Chicago(06/01/13–09/02/13)

The J. Paul Getty Museum(10/01/13–01/05/14)

High Museum of Art(02/22/14–05/18/14)

By: Elizabeth Siegel
Contributions by: Brett Abbott, Paul Martineau
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 279mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 1.252kg
ISBN: 9780300184556
ISBN 10: 0300184557
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 25 June 2013
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Siegel is associate curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Reviews for Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door

Abelardo Morell has spent his career mining the strange in the ordinary. . . . Mr. Morell adds layers -- of image, of perception -- to his works to make us see more clearly. --Dana Jennings, New York Times --Dana Jennings New York Times