About the Book
The fifty-one photographs in this book were taken by photographing the landscape from the car windshield. The road, the asphalt, the perspective lines of the destination are therefore omnipresent. A means of crossing the landscape and at the same time an integral part of a story that can certainly be read on several levels. Stephen Shore wrote it very well. Each photograph, writes the photographer, consists of three floors. Leaving aside the material plane (the printed photograph, its "true" materiality), each image has a descriptive plane and a mental plane. At the descriptive level belongs what, in fact, the photographer took during the shooting phase. A landscape, an action, a still life. Vezza d’Alba seen from its streets, in the case of this work. On the mental level, however, belongs any reflection on the meaning that the author intended to convey. From these considerations, this project was born which, like the previous works, was carried out by means of a smartphone mounted on the glass of a car, dedicating attention to the pure description of what can be encountered along the streets. The real landscape, always preponderant over any of its representations to put it as Robert Adams would say, reveals itself in its simplest condition.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
- Additional Categories Portfolios
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Project Option: US Letter, 8.5×11 in, 22×28 cm
# of Pages: 64 - Publish Date: Oct 23, 2020
- Language Italian
- Keywords italy, topographics, new topographics, landscape
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