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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…