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Abelardo Morell

(1948) Photographer

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Abelardo Morell is a photographer.

Quick Facts About Abelardo Morell

Born: January 1, 1948
Profession: Photographer

About Abelardo Morell

[Wikidata] American photographer (born 1948)... | [Wikipedia] Abelardo Morell is a contemporary artist widely known for turning rooms into camera obscuras and then capturing the marriage of interior and exterior in large format photographs. He is also known for his 'tent-camera,' a device he invented to merge landscapes with the texture and composition of the

Quotes by Abelardo Morell

The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes…

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Care

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The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and…

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Accepted

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“At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an…

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Book

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A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I…

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Care

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It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we…

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Certain

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I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly,…

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Children

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...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where…

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Basics

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Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at…

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Absurdity

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There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now.…

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Being done

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