Contributions for art / photography / architecture magazines

Roma Ciudada Abierta (La fotografia de la posguerra) in “Carta”, pp.10-15. Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, N.4 Spring – Summer 2013. Spanish.

An essay on Italian photographic culture from 1940s up to the end of the 1950s focusing on the development of Italian photojournalism as it took place in Rome. Specifically it discusses the beginning of the Italian socially committed photojournalism later declining into paparazzismo.

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Il Fotografo e la città pp.8 – 13 in “Archi”, n.6, 2005. Italian

Inspired by Pasolini’s call to observe and preserve the visual memory of harmonious architecture of ancient Italian villages , this essay considers various models of representing the city by contemporary Italian photographers committed in the “imaging” of urban living.

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L’esperienza dell’Heimlich nella fotografia contemporanea in “Rivista tecnica”, pp.97-107, Lugano n.1,1 988. Italian and English.

This essay examines various photographic representation of domestic environment, the place where we enroot and that, as Gaston Bachelard put it, is the corner of our intimate world , the very site we choose to dream of the universe. This space of intimacy can, at times turn into an uncanny and nightmarish locus.

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Paesaggi La Natura nell’era del Postnaturale in “Flash Art”, Milano, pp.80-83, April– May 1997. Italian

This essay raises the question of the representation of the conflict between nature and our contemporary urban living, between culture ( patrimony of knowledge and human behaviors ) and nature ( landscape, our living environment , the air we breath ) as it is “imaged” or put into images by photographers and women photographers in the first half of the 1990s. The study includes a call for politicians to take a stand on landscape and beauty.

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Gli scatti della memoria, pp.28-38 in “Anteprima Torino” June 1996, Year 2, Nr.6. Italian

First inventory of Turin photographic heritage consisting of photographic collections of Museums, Libraries, Photography Associations as well as private and public archival funds.

The listing is completed with their history and bibliographical notes.

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Conversazione con Lee Friedlander pp.1; 6, in “Il Giornale di Fotologia”, N.1, March 1995. Italian

Transcript of a conversation with Lee Friedlander held in conjunction with his European premiere presentation of Working People and Letters from People (1994) works showed at the Castello di Rivoli in February 1995.

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Picture This pp.8-12, in “Art Monthly“, London, n.181, November 1994. English.

The essay discusses the early works by Cindy Sherman and the key role it played in gaining an unprecedented and unexpected recognition to the photographic medium.

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La Fotografia Italiana al Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York pp.87- 90 in “Fotologia” n.10. Fall- Winter 1988. Italian

A transcript of a conversation with Maria Morris Hamburg , curator of the Department of Prints and Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It includes a complete list of the works by Italian photographers owned by the Museum.

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La fotografia italiana nelle collezioni fotografiche statunitensi: Il Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp.43-47 in “Fotologia” n.9, May 1988. Italian

A commented survey of the Italian photographic fund kept at the Department of Photography of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It includes the Italian translation of the Preface to Looking at Photographs 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski, director of the Department of Photography of MoMa.

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