Flowers for Lisa: A Delirium of Photographic Invention

Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948 and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. His work has been collected and shown in many galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, SFMoMA, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and more than seventy other museums in the United States and abroad. Morell is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York. His publications include A Book of Books, Camera Obscura, and The Universe Next Door.   Lawrence Weschler is the award-winning author of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (about Robert Irwin), True to Life (about David Hockney), Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, and Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez, among many others. He lives in New York City.