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Camera obscura image of the Brooklyn Bridge projected onto a bed
August 12, 2011

Brooklyn Bedroom

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As vivid as a dream, a hypersharp image of the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan materializes above tousled sheets. To make the surreal picture, Morell essentially put his camera inside a room serving as a camera and kept his shutter open for five hours to expose on film the incoming image. He used a prism to flip the projection right-side up. "View of the Brooklyn Bridge in Bedroom," 2009

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Photograph by Abelardo Morell

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