Abelardo Morell makes photographs that transform everyday things into magical, ominous and mysterious objects. This is the only book that covers the photographer's complete career to the present day and included here are his extraordinarycamera obscura images, his tender family photographs and more recently the photographer's enchanting illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Abelardo Morell makes photographs that transform everyday things into magical, ominous and mysterious objects. His spell-binding pictures of books, maps, paintings and household items explore reality and illusion through the use of surprising perspectives, unexpected angles, distorted sizes and distances. In Morell's hands a stack of library books are transformed into bars of gold and a plain paper bag becomes a portal to another dimension. This is the only book that covers the photographer's complete career to the present day and included here are his extraordinarycamera obscura images, his tender family photographs and more recently the photographer's enchanting illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Abelardo Morell was born in Cuba in 1948. He gained his BA at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine before completing his MFA at Yale University of Art, New Haven Connecticut in 1981. In 1997 he was made an honorary Doctor of fine Arts at Bowdoin College. He is currently Professor of Photography at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.

Foreword

Richard B.Woodward

Photographs

List of Works

Biography