A. Luise - Trapani - 2025
Perhaps we would not be able to give a precise definition of it, but we all have some idea of…
P. Pellegrin - Rochester, USA- 2012
In his illuminating “Before Photography”, Peter Galassi identifies two poles within which the realizations of perspective in Western representation have…
A. Kertesz - Broken Window, Prague - 1929
What has painting found beyond the garden of mimesis, whose gates photography would fling open for it? Freed — to…
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…
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…
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…