Lecture in Photography: Abelardo Morell
Wednesday, Sep 21, 2022 6 – 7 pmColumbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan
Chicago, IL 60605
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Columbia College Student Center
754 S. Wabash, 5th floor
This Wednesday, the MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago invite you to a Lecture in Photography, featuring Abelardo Morell.
Morell is well-known for transforming ordinary rooms into camera obscuras. His wide range of photographs have been showcased at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the International Museum of Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian Institution International Gallery, Washington, DC.; among many others. He published his book A Camera in a Room in 1995 and was the subject of the documentary Shadow of the House (2007). Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.
Image: Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: The Pantheon in Hotel Albergo del Sole, Room #111, Rome, Italy, 2008