{"type":"artobject","objectid":134221,"objectnumber":"2018-47","sortnumber":"2018   47","displaytitle":"Camera Obscura: La Giraldilla de la Habana in Room with Broken Wall, Cuba","department":"Photography","classification":"Photographs","datebegin":2002,"dateend":2002,"datecomputed":2002,"daterange":"A.D. 1945-present","displaydate":"2002","medium":"Inkjet print","dimensions":"81.3 × 101.6 cm (32 × 40 in.)\r\nframe: 104.1 × 124.5 × 4.8 cm (41 × 49 × 1 7/8 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund, and gift of the Department of Art and Archaeology in honor of Esther da Costa Meyer\r\n\r\n","markings":null,"inscribed":null,"signed":"Signed, titled, dated, and editioned on label on verso","catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"© Abelardo Morell","restrictions":"restricted","nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":"","campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"2018-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Camera Obscura: La Giraldilla de la Habana in Room with Broken Wall, Cuba","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[{"id":1204,"displayname":"Abelardo Morell","displaydate":"born 1948, Havana, Cuba; active Boston, MA","datebegin":1948,"dateend":2100,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Abelardo Morell, born 1948, Havana, Cuba; active Boston, MA","displayorder":1}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"The artist. [Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2018. ","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"Morell has long experimented with the camera obscura, a technique in which a small aperture allows light into an otherwise dark space, producing an optical phenomenon of an inverted projection of the view outside. In 2002, Morell returned to Cuba, from which he fled with his family at the age of fourteen, to continue his series of photographs of camera obscura projections in private rooms. A meditation on photography, loss, and remembrance, this photograph casts a projection of the watchtower that is part of one of the oldest colonial fortresses in the Americas onto an interior wall of a derelict building, juxtaposing the fort’s endurance with the neglect of the surrounding structures.","remarks":"HOP rotation June 2019"}],"media":[{"id":227739,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2040502","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"restricted","caption":"PUAM Photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"<p>&quot;Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2018,&quot; <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> 77/78 (2017-18)</p>","citation":"<p>&quot;Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2018,&quot; <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> 77/78 (2017-18)</p>, p. 181","date":2017,"id":9760,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/45401204"}],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: North America, Cuba, Havana","code":"Place made","continent":"North America","subcontinent":null,"country":"Cuba","region":null,"state":null,"city":"Havana","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/3553478/havana.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2053200,"term":"photographs","aatid":300046300,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2038492,"term":"American","aatid":300107956,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2087836,"term":"ruins","aatid":300008057,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2188610,"term":"inkjet prints","aatid":null,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2106630,"term":"rooms","aatid":300004044,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2154537,"term":"inkjet printing","aatid":300235748,"termtype":"Techniques"}],"classifications":[{"id":2188610,"classification":"inkjet prints"},{"id":2053200,"classification":"photographs"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2038492,"culture":"American"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199323,"term":"Latin American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199324,"term":"Art Since 1945","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199325,"term":"North American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199326,"term":"Photography","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"81.27"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"101.59"},{"element":"frame","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"104.13"},{"element":"frame","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"124.45"},{"element":"frame","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"4.76"}],"packages":[],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2040502"],"displaymaker":"Abelardo Morell, born 1948, Havana, Cuba; active Boston, MA","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Abelardo Morell (born 1948, Havana, Cuba; active Boston, MA), Camera Obscura: La Giraldilla de la Habana in Room with Broken Wall, Cuba, 2002. Inkjet print; 81.3 × 101.6 cm, 104.1 × 124.5 × 4.8 cm (frame). Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund, and gift of the Department of Art and Archaeology in honor of Esther da Costa Meyer\r\n\r\n (2018-47)","captionhtml":"Abelardo Morell (born 1948, Havana, Cuba; active Boston, MA), <i>Camera Obscura: La Giraldilla de la Habana in Room with Broken Wall, Cuba</i>, 2002. Inkjet print; 81.3 × 101.6 cm, 104.1 × 124.5 × 4.8 cm (frame). Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund, and gift of the Department of Art and Archaeology in honor of Esther da Costa Meyer\r\n\r\n (2018-47)","published_date":"2026-03-31 03:28:31.573011","campusart":[{"campuscollections":"false","campusart":0,"neighborhood":null,"lat":null,"lon":null}],"extended_content":false}