Abelardo Morell is a contemporary Cuban-born American photographer renowned for his use of camera obscura to capture land and cityscapes. The artists’s interest in the early technology came from a ...

To capture a projected image, innovators in the early 1800s began inserting chemically treated paper or metal plates at the back of the boxy camera obscura, and the art of photography was born.

A portrait of contemporary artist Abelardo Morell with a tent ... light as possible because he makes photographs using a “camera obscura” — literally, a dark room. The earliest written ...