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…
Don McCullin. Before it's too Late
English version in preparation. Se non avessi il sospetto di ricorrere ad un aggettivo precocemente consumato dall’abuso, potrei definire “necessaria”…