Morell needed it to negate as much light as possible because he makes photographs using a “camera obscura” — literally, a dark room. The earliest written account of a camera obscura was ...

Abelardo Morell is a contemporary Cuban-born American photographer renowned for his use of camera obscura to capture land and cityscapes. The artists’s interest in the early technology came from a ...

Morell had turned his classroom into a camera obscura, a dark chamber, the Latin name for perhaps the earliest known imaging device and the ancestor of the photographic camera. Explaining the ...