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Where Does the White Go
Piergiorgio Casotti was born in a small town in northern Italy. He describes his relationship with the mountains as "the absence of words... an absence that leaves us untouched by sound-interference and the 'white-noise' of human society." In this self-published photobook, Casotti pays tribute to the silence of the mountains with a series of images of ski villages and their surroundings, abandoned during the warm season. While a few patches of dirty snow still cling to the slopes, the parking areas and roads are empty, the condos devoid of life, the seasonal incessant motion paused until the snow comes again. The harsh elements that eternally shape the mountain likewise seem dormant.
Chewing Gum and Chocolate
Shomei Tomatsu, one of Japans foremost twentieth-century photographers, created one of the defining portraits of postwar Japan. Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bombs in 11:02 Nagasaki, Tomatsu continued to focus on the tensions between traditional Japanese culture and the growing westernization of the nation in his seminal book Nihon. Beginning in the late 1950s, Tomatsu committed to photographing as many of the American military bases in Japan as possible. Tomatsus photographs focused on the seismic impact of the American victory and occupation: uniformed American soldiers carousing in red-light districts with Japanese women; foreign children at play in...
Anime galleggianti
Due musicisti, una zattera e un canale che collega Mantova al Delta del Po. È così che ha inizio lo straordinario viaggio di Vasco Brondi e Massimo Zamboni “dalla pianura al mare, tagliando per i campi”: per una settimana Massimo, Vasco e Piergiorgio, il fotografo che li accompagna, navigano a una velocità massima di dieci chilometri l’ora le acque magiche e surreali del Tartaro Canalbianco, uno dei tanti canali che attraversano la pianura padana nella zona del Polesine. Gli argini del canale sono molto alti, la pianura è solo una proiezione, mentre le giornate scorrono tra pescatori, aironi, immigrati rumeni e cinesi, pesci siluro, chiuse, tralicci e soste in paesi minuscoli. In mezzo a questa “Amazzonia immaginaria” il paesaggio apre ai ricordi infinite via di fuga e l’eco di coloro che della pianura hanno saputo narrare la malinconica bellezza – Zavattini, Celati, Ghirri – si intreccia a un nuovo, universale, canto interiore. Due storie, anzi tre, e un viaggio a pochi chilometri da casa che si rivela la forma più pura di esplorazione, scoperta, incanto.
But Still, it Turns
"Paul Graham curates a subtle thesis and revitalising manifesto for photography. The dynamic and diverse work gathered here advocates an unashamed, but not uncomplicated, dedication to the brilliant tangle of reality. Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive demands of conventional documentary, these artists tell open-ended stories that shift, warp, and branch, attuned unfailingly to life-as-it-is. Included are Gregory Halpern's Californian waking dream ZZYZX; Vanessa Winship's peripatetic exercise in empathy she dances on Jackson; the human assemblages of Curran Hatleberg's Lost Coast; Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa's rich and multitudinous One Wall a Web; the mortality-tinged America of Richard Choi's What Remains; RaMell Ross' visionary documentary work South County; the collaborative project Index G by Emanuele Bruti & Piergiorgio Casotti; and Kristine Potter's disorientating exploration of the American landscape and masculinity in Manifest. All these works are brought together in harmony and enlightening dissonance, as Graham teases out a new photographic form"--Publisher's description.
L'Espresso
"Politica, cultura, economia." (varies)
