ABELARDO MORELL

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A retrospective of Morell's career:
105 photographs spanning 30 years

Photographs by Abelardo Morell
Introduction by Richard Woodward

TF Editores, Spain
Phaidon Press, London
English/Spanish/French Publication

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Abelardo Morell

"Abelardo Morell's camera transforms the recesses of the world into something even more shadowy. The fact that what he finds in these shadows is quite ordinary - books, kids' toys, a paper bag - makes the results magically disorienting and (as in the cover image of a vase perched on the edge of a table) precarious. This year, a fantastic selection of his work was published, "Abelardo Morell."

Geoff Dyer, Favorite Books of 2005,
L.A. Times (PDF; 90kb)

"There is no doubt he has been among the most protean and inventive photographers at work anywhere during the last 15 years. By himself practicing more than one photography, he has enriched the possibilities for his contemporaries, whatever their artistic faith . . . Morell thinks big by keeping his focus small. His eye can't help being drawn to romantic decay, to the Laocoon-like contortions of bound pages damaged by flood or a box of shredded, worthless money. And yet he also sees how light on the gilded edges of a stack of library books suddenly transforms them into bars of gold. Alert to the vicissitudes of the physical that the camera lens is ideally suited to capture and magnify, but driven to express the metaphysical and transcendent - to venture into the realms of dreams and death - Morell has a mocking, adventurous spirit that shows no sign of being jaded by the remarkable strangeness of being here on earth."

Richard Woodward, from the Introduction
Download the complete Introduction:
in English (PDF; 132kb),
en Español (PDF; 16.1mb),
en Français (PDF; 4.7mb),
auf Deutsch (PDF; 5.1mb),
in Italiano (PDF; 5.3mb)