Photo of the Day

the Golden Gate Bridge in California
October 10, 2013

Golden Gate Bridge, California

This Month in Photo of the Day: The Power of Photography

Morell, recently retired as a professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, created this image of the Golden Gate Bridge using a camera obscura and the ground as a canvas.

See more pictures from the October 2013 feature story "Visions on Earth."

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Photograph by Abelardo Morell

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