The Real and the Fake in Art
To Benedetto Croce’s famous aphorism — Art is what everyone knows it to be — the philosopher William Kennick added,…
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…
The Flight of the Goldfinch
English version in preparation. Riflessioni poco accademiche sulla ricerca del significato delle opere d’arte La domanda “cosa significa?” è uno…
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…