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Camera Communis Manuel Acevedo | 2007 | digita image taken inside the exhibition's camera obscura | photographic documentation by Jerry Mann
Camera Communis Manuel Acevedo | 2007 | digita image taken inside the exhibition's camera obscura | photographic documentation by Jerry Mann
Camera Communis Manuel Acevedo | 2007 | digita image taken inside the exhibition's camera obscura | photographic documentation by Jerry Mann
Multidisciplinary artist Manuel Acevedo (New York, NY) uses large-scale camera obscuras made from rooms in community centers, churches, and homes to bring the outside world in, altering how we normally perceive the world.
Through his work, Acevedo uses both interior and exterior urban landscapes to create dialogues about myth, identity, and cultural understandings. Acevedo's narrative imagery encourages a closer look at our basic humanity, temporarily stripping away class, gender, creed, and culture.
Manuel Acevedo
Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1964, Mr. Acevedo's work involves a mixture of photography, video, flip book animation, and camera obscura optics. Acevedo's recent solo and group exhibitions include 2011 Made and Unmade at Cuchifritos in NYC, Maraya Art Centre, UAE, Al-Ghaib, Aesthetics of Disappearance and Third Steaming, NYC,... go to artist page
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