Live Auction 14357Photographs Including Property Sold to Benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation
Abelardo Morell (B. 1948)
Lot 253

Abelardo Morell (B. 1948)

Tent–Camera Image on Ground: Rooftop View of the Brooklyn Bridge–Brooklyn Side, 2011

Closed6 April 2017

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Abelardo Morell (B. 1948)
Tent–Camera Image on Ground: Rooftop View of the Brooklyn Bridge–Brooklyn Side, 2011
archival pigment print, flush–mounted on board
signed and numbered '1/6' in ink and credited, titled and dated on affixed artist's label (flush mount, verso)
image: 44 3/4 x 60 in. (113.7 x 152.4 cm.)
overall: 57 3/8 x 71 7/8 in. (145.7 x 182.6 cm.)
This work is number 1 from the edition of 6.

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2013.

Specialist note

I have always loved The 19th Century photographs of the American West by Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan and William Henry Jackson but, when I had a commission to photograph these landscapes anew, the work of these men daunted me—so much so that, for a long time, I couldn’t imagine how I would approach making landscape images myself. But like many immigrants, I felt moved to explore the vastness of my adopted country. To picture America’s national parks, I invented a device—part tent, part periscope—to show how the immediacy of the ground we walk on enhances our understanding of the panorama, the larger world it helps to form. I wanted to find a way to make these well-known views of familiar and iconic places into my own private discoveries. —Abelardo Morell