Contributions to art and photography
co-authored books
This section includes some of my theory contributions to visual art co-authored books.
Each of these full essay is accompanied by illustrations and is available for both perusal and/or download.

per Cesare De Seta
Vincenzo Castella Siti 98-08
La Ninfa e il professore pp.86-89 in Alfredo Buccaro, Leonardo Di Mauro, Massimo Visone edited by per Cesare De Seta, Artem, Napoli, 2023
An essay on Cesare De Seta ‘s own contribution to the advancement of the History of Italian Photography written on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the illustrious scholar
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Vincenzo Castella Siti 98-08
Vincenzo Castella Siti 98-08
“Migratione” as indeterminacy and possibility in “Portfolio Torino 2002” pp.98-101 in Angela Madesani edited by, Vincenzo Castella Siti 98- 08, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore, Milan, 2009. Italian and English
The essay is an analysis of Vincenzo Castella’s Portfolio Torino 2000-2002, a photographic project commissioned by Antonella Russo to the photographer in 2002 to document the visual mutation of the urban structure of the city of Turin in preparation for the 2006 Winter Olympic.
The Portfolio fotografico Torino comprises 10 color 90 x 110 cm C -Print anti UV silicon plexiglass + bi-laminated aluminum, Edition of 2/2. Gift of Massimo Prelz Oltramonti to the Archivio Storico della Città di Torino photographic fund.
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L’altra metà dello sguardo
L’altra metà dello sguardo
La nozione di “Unheimlich” nelle immagini di donne fotografe in Nicoletta Leonardi edited by L’altra metà dello sguardo, Agorà editrice, Torino, 2001, pp. 25-32. Italian.
This essay analyses some examples of representation of domestic interiors produced by women photographers from the Nineteenth century up to Today. A contribution to the symposium L’altra metà dello sguardo, held on December 4, 1998 in Torino.
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Mise en Abyme
Mise en Abyme
Riflections on the Arcanes in Nanda Lanfranco Mise en Abyme, Allemandi, Torino, 1995 pp.15-21; 28-33. Italian and English
Essay on the Arcani, photographic tarot divination cards produced by Nanda Lanfranco between 1987 and 1995.
The text considers these tarot card as a “combinatory compositional machinery” one that over the decades has inspired Surrealists poets as well as some Italo Calvino’s tales.
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