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. 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…
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…
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. Gursky - Untitled XIII - 2002
There is a word for that mixture of wonder, anguish, and fascination that overtakes us when our experience of the…
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…