Issue

Paul Graham – Europe: America. I segni della storia

The brilliant and irreverent gaze of English photographer Paul Graham delivers to the new European and American generations a handbook of images of the themes they will face, outlining – through affinities and differences – the complex dividing line that runs along the two shores of the Western world.

Antonio Rovaldi – Il suono del becco del picchio

Walking as an aesthetic practice: the artist gives an intimate and poetic description of a city that manifests its most secret nature, echoing ancient civilizations. Rovaldi’s photographs tell of trees and open spaces, of objects abandoned on the ground, of immense uncultivated lawns, of concrete showing the signs of time, of fragments of torn paper, tar, brick walls, metal nets, and again signs, signs everywhere.

Borders of War: what did you see that we couldn’t?

Cosa hanno visto che noi non potremmo vedere? Ogni scatto e singola parola di Caimi&Piccinni, Simone Cargnoni, Francesco Faraci, Francesco Malavolta e Alessandro Penso appare come tassello di un puzzle di inenarrabile geografia, in cui confini, limiti, barriere e distanze assumono un valore nuovo insieme a una distorsione generata da processi storici che si abbattono su milioni di persone inermi.

Lee Friedlander – America by car

The American landscape as seen through the car’s rear-view mirror and windows. A visionary exploration beyond the already known, beyond the obvious, in a game of reflections and ironic references, in which each shot offers a new vision of the States.

Antonio Rovaldi – “Orizzonte in Italia”. Horizon in Italy

The result of a long bicycle trip in two stages along Italian coasts, “Orizzonte in Italia” by Antonio Rovaldi is a complex image that has formed over time, through an accumulation of gazes; it is at the same time the trace of an experience, personal and circumscribed, and of an imaginary world, collective and boundless.

Allen Ginsberg – Beat Generation family album

A passionate photographer, the poet symbol of the Beat Generation captured moments taken of the vortex of existence. A diary in pictures, taken travelling “on the road” through many countries with the greatest “beautiful minds” of American counterculture.