A. R. Turetta - Slaughterhouse - s.d.
So, what is an image? If we were willing to settle for unsophisticated definitions, we might say that it is…
G. Berengo Gardin - Polesine - 1971
I sometimes suspect that the anthropological purpose of photography is to reassure both those who make it and those who…
S. Abu Elouf - Portrait of Mahmoud Ajjour - 2025
If images truly possess a power, one ought to ask what that power could possibly be, given that for the…
The Thickness of a Surface
English version in preparation. Per un verso, l’enigma dell’immagine può parere risibile. Quale enigma in ciò che ci accade tutti…
E. Vucci - Trump injured surrounded by bodyguards - 2024
What is meant by “iconic”? Certainly its most popular usage today has little to do with the one used on…
H. Sugimoto - Tyrrhenian Sea, Amalfi - 1990
If, as Kant maintained, aesthetic experience arises from a free play of imagination and intellect, it is because within it…
Napoli Ottocento
English version in preparation. Non è certo la mezza dozzina di fotografie di Wilhelm von Gloeden, con le ninfette e…
In the Face of Pain. Of others
English version in preparation. Mohammed Salem, A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece, Reuters Ci sono molte probabilità…
M. Sestini (and assistants) - Portrait of Sofia Goggia - 2024
There is the photograph, and there is the image. In the case of this portrait of skier Sofia Goggia, the…
M. Quirini - Self portrait - s. d.
If one believes, like the philosopher, that it is good not to multiply entities praeter necessitatem, one will probably think…