Camera Obscura: View of Central Park Looking North-Summer, 2008
Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round
Whoa. I have karaoke on the brain. But I am very very jazzed, because I just saw Abelardo Morell‘s color camera obscura images; it looks like someone took a work jaunt to Italy. And to great effect! These remind me of the moment in The Wizard of Oz when everything turns to color. Poof!
Camera Obscura: The Pantheon in Hotel Albergo Del Sole al Pantheon, Room # 111, Rome, Italy, 2008
Camera Obscura: View of the Grand Canal Looking Northeast From Room in Ca’ Foscari. Venice, Italy, 2008
Camera Obscura: View of Volta Del Canal in Palazzo Room Painted With Jungle Motif, Venice, Italy , 2008
Camera Obscura Image of the Coliseum inside Room # 23 at the Hotel Gladiatori, Rome, 2007
The before-the-nbc-peacock-feather-moments were pretty awesome, too, I must admit.
Camera Obscura Image of El Vedado, Habana, LookingNorthwest, 2002
Camera Obscura Image of Building Clusters in Office,LaSalle Bank, Chicago, IL, 2005
Camera Obscura Image of TheWater Tower in Park Hyatt Room, Chicago, IL, 2005
Camera Obscura Image of LaGiraldilla de la Habana in Room Under Construction, 2002
Camera Obscura Image of Habana, Looking East inRooom with Ladder, 2002
Looks like the new work will be up at Bonni Benrubi on September 25th. Check it.
I was stuck in my dorm room with the flu for a couple days in college, the window blind pulled almost all the way down to the sill, when I noticed a strange effect — the dark room and the narrow slit of daylight had created a camera obscura. I could see everything happening outside the room projected, in mirror image, on the opposite wall.
It took my mind off my illness for a time.
How is he inverting the projected image so that it is right side up? Mirrors?
I absolutely love this work, I’ll definitely be visiting the gallery for a look.
Hmmm. Reminded me a lot of the work of James Nizam. How can it be that two artists produce such similar work?
http://www.galleryjones.com/James_Nizam.html
Yeah, how does he invert? By sticking a lens in front of the hole?
these just filled me with happiness. it helps that I adore Italy.
Re James Nizam, both artists are using Camera Obscura which is a very old technique. Any artist using that technique is going to get similar looking results.
Re inverting, it’s optics… that’s how a camera obscura (basically a giant pinhole camera) works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura