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Judy Ohye and Krista Goguen of the PCC Shatford Library have purchased several books for the community to get familiar with the work of the Artist in Residence, Abe Morell, this March.

Three of these books can be checked out at a time for three days. They are Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye, Book of Books, Camera in a Room, Face to Face, Camera Obscura, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

            According to his book, Camera in a Room, Morell was born in Cuba and in 1962 at the age of 14 came to the U.S.  Eventually he was awarded a scholarship to Bowdoin College in Maine.

            This book shows his work with camera obscura, or pinhole photography, which is  a light-safe container with a small hole on it to capture the image.

            This is the kind of photography for which he is most known. He was inspired to shoot this type of image from his teaching days at Massachusetts College of Art when he was given a sabbatical, or leave, from the University.

               Morell’s book, Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye, shows 105 images over his career of 30 years. It also lists his exhibition tour and his work in them. It starts from 1998 at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego to 2000 at the University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Alberque.

            According to his website, he has won several awards spanning from his 1992 Cintas Foundation Fellowship award to his most recent award, the International Center of Photography Infinity Award in 2011. 

            He has been an artist in residence at the Alturas Foundation Artist-in-Residence in south Texas and the Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence at YaleUniversity Art Gallery inNew Haven, CT from 2008-2009.

His book, Face to Face, has works from his artist in residence at the Gardner Museum in Boston, Ma. in 1998. 

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