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…
A. Gursky - Untitled XIII - 2002
There is a word for that mixture of wonder, anguish, and fascination that overtakes us when our experience of the…
A. Kertész - Elizabeth and I - 1933/1962
Context, Content, Form. If these were Cartesian axes, the analysis of a photograph would be a curve in the space…
E. Smith - Tomoko Is Bathed by Her Mother - 1971
“Photography appeals to the sense of power that accompanies our attempt to order and construct the surrounding world.” By the…
F. Radino - Verbania - 1983
Man is, as the saying goes, a semiotic animal. Everything he observes, touches, smells, hears or tastes tends to be…
A. Pacioni - Virtus - 2017/2020
Take a pane of glass the size of half a royal folio, and fix it firmly before your eyes, that…
F. Lovino - Gianluca Vialli - 2003
“The name of the noema of photography will therefore be ‘it has been’.” The words of Roland Barthes sound even…
G. Mérillon - Funeral Wake for a Militant, Kosovo - 1990
Who knows how we would see this image, what we would look for in it and what we would find,…
A. Nicoletti - Untitled - 2017
Tertium non datur. It may be a matter of millennia-old habit, but it is no simple thing to say whether…
E. Weston - Pepper n. 30 - 1930
It takes a fraction of a second to realise that this is not a human bust twisted into a late-Mannerist…