Fotografia Italiana Ora
By David A. LEWIS
We live in an age saturated by printed photographs, motion pictures, broadcast media, and digital dis- plays. A constant stream of photographic images variously delight, confront, and perplex us.
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / David A. Lewis, featured /
By David A. LEWIS
We live in an age saturated by printed photographs, motion pictures, broadcast media, and digital dis- plays. A constant stream of photographic images variously delight, confront, and perplex us.
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / featured /
Mimmo JODICE
“All my work is born out of a moment of emotion, all my photography is the result of a particular encounter that determines my unique state of being. It’s as is the forms, the objects, the landscapes and the light were preparing for me, always awaiting me. Beneath an appearance of normalcy, my works hold and evoke a deep stirring inside of me for all that has occurred or will occur; and reveal memories of times past.”
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / featured /
Franco FONTANA
“Taking photographs is an act of knowledge – it is a taking possession. What we photograph are not images but reproductions of ourselves. Creativity does not illustrate or imitate. It interprets, thus becoming the quest for an ideal truth. Creative photography does not reproduce but interprets by making the invisible visible.”
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / featured /
G. Berengo GARDIIN
“The photographer views the world differently from non-photographers because the photographer wants to – I don’t want to say seal – but appreciate the situation.”
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / featured /
Works from the exhibition “Italia Inside Out” at Palazzo della Ragione Fotografia, Milan through June 21, 2015
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / featured /
Charles H. TRAUB
“Italy looked to me like a dystopia whose inhabitants acted as if they were living in heaven. Not all of them, of course, but many. And those many ended up in my pictures. I thought they might be viewed as typical, you know, not universal types, but common enough to be significant in a representative way.”
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / featured /
Luca CAMPIGOTTO
“As a photographer, my fate is to remain forever hostage to my own gaze, destined to the mission of memory, to the circular motion of nostalgia.”
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / featured /
By Davide BRAMANTE
“My way of photographing is identical to the way I remember, think, dream, hope and imagine. Everything happens through the overlapping of time and space. I use photography in the same way as I use my mind.”
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / featured /
Anders PETERSEN
“In short, people are always my most important source of inspiration, and I love Rome.”
Italian Journal / Photographic / Photogenic, Volume 20. Number XII. 2015 / featured, Marina Spunta /
By Marina SPUNTA
Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) is widely recognized in Italy (and, increasingly, abroad) as a leading photographer who since the 1970s gave a new impetus to Italian photography and a new aesthetic identity to everyday places, while contributing to founding an ‘Italian school of (landscape) photography’.