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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Morell, Abelardo Creator Nationality: North American; American Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1948 Biography: Abelardo Morell American, b. Cuba, 1948-Havana-born Abe Morell became interested in photography while a student of John McKee at Bowdoin College in Maine (B.A., 1977). Fascinated by the surreal, he initially produced manipulated prints of outlandish scenarios. The work of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, however, showed Morell "that straight photography could pack more surrealism into a picture" than he could achieve through manipulation. Adopting a 35mm straight technique, in 1978 he traveled to Miami and New York to work as a street photographer in the vein of Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, continuing in this format at Yale University (M.F.A., 1981). In the late 1980s, Morell began two series for which he is best known: large-scale black-and-white photographs of interior spaces made with a self-built camera obscura, and still lifes of pictures of the pictures in books. The images provide clever post-modern commentary on the nature of photographic representation by referencing the medium's beginnings while simultaneously celebrating the ephemeral magic of light and shadow. Devoid of human subjects, these psychologically complex interior landscapes allude to the changing spheres of childhood and family, and our understanding of history itself, in contemporary middle-class society. Morell has received fellowships from the Cintas Foundation (1992-93) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1993-94). He currently chairs the photography department at Massachusetts College of Art and lives in Quincy. A.W. Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Havanna, Cuba Creator Name-CRT: Abelardo Morell Title: Map of North America Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1996 Creation End Date: 1996 Creation Date: 1996 Object Type: Photographs Materials and Techniques: gelatin silver print Dimensions: Sheet: 50.8cm x 60.7cm, Image: 46cm x 57.1cm Inscriptions: written in pencil on verso: ABELARDO MORELL (signed) MAP OF NORTH AMERICA, 1996" AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1998.117 Credit Line: Judith K. and S. Sterling McMillan III Photography Purchase Fund Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Context: A map of North America is transformed into an imaginary landscape when it is crumpled, filled with water, and photographed. Rather than manipulating the chemical processes of photography, Morell alters the object and then emphasizes its new, unusual form in a straightforward photograph. AMICA ID: CMA_.1998.117 AMICA Library Year: 2000 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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