Wonderful Investigations: Essays, Meditations, Tales

Wonderful Investigations: Essays, Meditations, Tales

Camera Obscura Image of Houses Across the Street in Our Living Room, Brookline MA 1991 (large detail)

Abelardo Morell's smart, playful investigations into the metaphysics of the photographic medium, in this case the use of a camera obscura to, as Dan Beachy-Quick does in his book Wonderful Investigations, explore the relationship between 'inside and outside' nature and culture.
To view an uncropped version of Abelardo Morrell's photo, from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, click here.