Signed 112 pages Publisher: SilvanaEditoriale Dimensions: 33 x 24 cm
This is not simply a book of photographs, then, but a collection of possible “visions” of the city. The images are not made complete or defined by their contours; rather, they force the viewer to think about the places they come from – that is, they point towards a way of perceiving the entire city which does not depend on how its details are photographically rendered. In its not easy to abstract given places from such a complex city and turn them into “photographic places”, which is to say sites capable of eliciting emotions, wonder, and amazement. Perhaps one might say that the author has placed himself in a condition to “listen to places”, so as to distil some of their essential qualities.
Renata Codello
Today Renato D’Agostin is immortalizing fractions of time in his Venice, imprinting a gaze sprung from the city itself upon its history. The elements D’Agostin is searching for and finding spring from Venice itself; nothing is added: things are simply allowed to find poetic expression.
Texts by Italo Zannier, Chiara Casarin & Renata Codello.
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