tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82934863404691917732024-03-13T06:47:02.689+01:00ORPHOAlle origini della fotografia, blog di immagini, pensieri, tecnica, curiosità e cultura fotograficaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-36404201315202221612018-11-09T09:20:00.001+01:002018-12-05T22:57:46.863+01:00Factory at Bruzella: photographic documentation as art<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tony Graffio: Good morning Phil Rolla, as already for the other 14 exhibitions in the past, have you made this exhibition with the photographs belonging to your collection?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Phil Rolla: Yes, what is exposed it's all part of our collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Why have you got this passion for industry?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Because I lived in industry; in addition to designing special pieces for boating, I produced them. Throughout my life I have dealt with this and so I have always been fascinated by the factory. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For me </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">it's better</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> to see a good turner or a good miller working than a naked woman... (Laughter) I've always been fascinated by the man's ability to create something with his hands and his wits .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Can we say that technique is art?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Yes, technique is art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Where do the photographs shown in these rooms come from?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: A little everywhere; I have collected them in various ways: buying directly from the authors; while vintage photographs come mainly from auction houses. I have had this series of images taken from the Krupp factories from an exchange with a friend who had found them in Paris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Yes, they are military photographs taken in 1923, when the French wanted to understand what was happening in Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Of course, they had already understood that the Germans were about to rearm. Do you know the author of these shots?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: No, they are anonymous, it's really about shots taken by the French aviation, there's no way of knowing who made them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Were you aware of the existence of these shots or it has been a surprise to find them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: No, I learned about their existence only two years ago, when I acquired them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: How long have you been collecting industrial photography?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: I started after the year 2000; for about 15 years. My first interest in photography was for German industrial photography, from 1928 onwards. The Germans wanted to document everything. Unfortunately, later also in the bad. After the First World War, in the 1920s, Germany was a very poor country. The only resource they had was the ability of people to do something well done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Well, they also had some important raw materials like coal and steel...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Yes, but those resources were destined for the payment of war debts. What enabled them to recover was precisely their manufacturing capacity and the choice to pursue a quality product, they had nothing else. The Germans have documented their work through photography, while in other countries this did not happen. In France or in Italy the workers were photographed in front of the factories. Group photography took place, rather than industrial photography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: So, can documentation become art?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Of course. What matters is the choice. Art is in choice. I say this as a collector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Atget has also documented Paris and his documents have become art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Atget has documented the Paris that he thought was about to disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: In fact it went like that, that Paris disappeared, but at the time just a few people understood it. Maybe nobody...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: No. During his life nobody understood what Atget was doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: These aerial photographs were probably shot with large format cameras, I would say 18X24 cm, loaded with plates that were then printed on contact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Yes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: What is the charm of these landscapes taken from above with zenithal photography?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: It is an aesthetic appeal that has to do with geometry and seriality. It's like seeing Sol Lewitt's drawings. It's the same for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Is it a complete series or is something missing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: We found eleven pieces. It was not done as a series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Let's see something else now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: In these images we see the <i>Turbinenhalle</i>, a turbine factory in Berlin that existed long before the Second World War. It is a very beautiful building from the early 1930s, all in glass blocks, here large turbines were built.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Does this factory still exist?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: It still exists now and it still works. The images were taken in 2009 by the German photographer Christof Klute. He is a friend of ours who has studied with the Becher. He is very good. These images give me the sense of the factory. All this exhibition, including the catalog, must give the sense of the factory. You can not document everything, but you can leave an impression, a sense of what is the factory, and that's what we wanted to say with this exposure that we have just called: Factory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Phil Rolla, excuse the curiosity, even the cameras express a concept of technicality and mechanical precision, do you also collects cameras?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: No. I've always had several cameras; first a Rolleiflex, then Leica, Hasselblad, Sinar... but I have always bought them for my personal use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG; On this wall what do we find?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Here, there are various images of different authors. The first two photographs are by Werner Mantz, a great German photographer who worked both before and after the war. They are images of great strength. A human element also appears to give an idea of the size of the building. This is the first industrial photograph I bought. <i>Frechen</i>, 1928, is another photograph of Werner Mantz that I liked very much for the strength expressed by the chimneys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Beautiful. The chimneys really have an unusual shape, they almost look like those Moroccan pans where they cook the cous cous...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: (Phil Rolla smiling) Yes, they look like the Tajines. However, the German cous cous is called charcoal. This untitled photograph taken in the early 1960s is an image by Bernhard Becher. Later, he will work with his wife Hilla, but each of them independently photographed on his own. From this photograph one can understand that he was a little more romantic than she. Together, they have been documenting the industry for more than 40 years. Hilla was the daughter of photographers, while Berhard was a painter who wanted to document German industry with his drawings, but then realized that with that technique it would take too much time, so he went to photography to document what was disappearing more quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Yes, the chimney is in the center of the village, while the workers' houses were around the factory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: The next is another aerial view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Antony Linck photographed from above an industrial village in New Jersey from the 1950s. These are the first industrial installations where there are only factories. Unlike what happened in Europe, where workers lived near the factory, here factories have arisen where before there was nothing. The novelty consisted of separating industrial and residential areas; it is a concept opposite to what we have seen in Becher's photography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: The American vision of life and work is totally different from the European one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: Yes, even if afterwards, outside of any Italian city, the industrial areas will be installed. The factory should not be close to those who consume the goods, but should be placed close to the suppliers of raw materials and where there is the ability to create the product.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: This solarization by Ludwig Windstosser is a bit like the emblem of industrial civilization. It is more interpretation than documentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Here we are instead in front of the photograph that has been a manifesto for this exhibition. It is also beautiful because it contains all the elements that give the idea of the factory and work: the smoke, the darkness inside the shed that contrasts with the light of day that comes from the windows and gigantic spaces that crush the man who ends up with losing its individual value to become part of an immense productive mechanism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: It is a photograph of the Ansaldo of Genova, taken by the Swiss photographer Kurt Blum. You perceive that dirty atmosphere crossed by the sunlight that is radiated to the ground. But now I leave you with Enrico Minasso who will explain to you what you will find in the other room, right on the other side of the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PR: At home I hung a large photograph of Ruff because it describes well a landscape of the German province, but you should have the space of a museum to be able to exhibit so many large works. We must also respect the stylistic choice of the artist. There are photographs that need to be printed on a large format, while others are more intimate and do not need to be large. Vincenzo Castella's photography in color at the entrance to the exhibition is just the right size. If it were bigger it would lose impact, while if it was smaller you would not see it any more.</span></div>
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The exhibited authors are: Tom Baril, Bernhard Becher, Kurt Blum, Oliver Boberg, Vincenzo Castella, Giuseppe Chietera, Ruth Hallensleben, Fritz Henle, Christof Klute, Anthony Linck, Werner Mantz, Enrico Minasso, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Fabio Tasca, James Welling, Ludwig Windstosser.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><u>Opening period</u>: from October 27th 2018 to January 27th 2019. </span><span style="text-align: start;">Every second Sunday of the month </span><span style="text-align: start;">from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm </span><span style="text-align: start;">and by appointment. </span><b>Free entry.</b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com06837 Bruzella, Svizzera45.8816279 9.036553300000036945.837418899999996 8.9558723000000366 45.9258369 9.1172343000000371tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-43656802727922837282017-12-31T13:34:00.000+01:002017-12-31T13:34:49.788+01:00Mutoid Uri Moss in a Tony Graffio's photo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Mutoid Waste Company is a very famous </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">group of punk artists founded in the middle of the eightys, in West London. After a stay in Berlin and in Amsterdam, the Mutoids arrived in Italy at the beginning of the ninetys. I knew them in Santarcangelo di Romagna, near Rimini, in 1993.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last May I was invited to expose in Milan the picture I took to Uri and in November I showed the same picture in Jesi, in another collective exhibition; in this last occasion I got an interesting meeting with a woman who was visiting the exhibition who told me she lived in Mutonia for a few years and her ex-husband was the man who built the tricycle Uri was driving at the moment I shot the picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Sometimes, strange things happen, and there are coincidences that make us reflect a lot. By hanging my gumprints on the wall of the Cotton Club Gallery in Jesi, I would not have imagined that anyone so close to Uri could have seen them and stay moved...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Allegra Corbo:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I lived in the Mutonia Camp,</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I know Uri very well, he came to us because he was the cousin of Lucy Wisdom, another Mutoid girl. Uri had come from Israel in 1993. I also know the kart-tricycle very well because my ex-husband, named Stephan Duve had built it. He is German and he has lived in Italy for years, but now he lives in England. I'm from Ancona, I'm here in Jesi because tomorrow I'll close my art exhibition in a private gallery near here. I'd love if you decided to come and see me there. For me, your images are like family photos. I've always been an artist, I lived with Mutoids for a while, but then I did other things. The other boy portrayed with Uri around the three wheeler go karts is Johnny (she talks of another picture I showed in the exhibition TG). I was with the Mutoids from 1991 to 1995, then I left with Stefan, but once we got separated, I went back to Santarcangelo later, with my children and then I left again to go somewhere else...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Merry Corbo: I do not need to say it, anyway, yes. I was 23 when I arrived there and even if I came from a fairly alternative family that allowed me to visit India and travel the world, I have to say that in Mutonia I had a very interesting experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Allegra Corbo: My parents were Hippies and I had already broken the patterns enough by being born and growing up in a family like that, but the Mutoids are different in another era. A Punk and Cyber-Punk world of the late 80s, early 90s when technology was already important and even the feeling of an imminent apocalypse resounded in the air, just because we realized that our society lived above its material possibilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Allegra Corbo: First of all we lived in a space that had been granted to us by the Municipality of Santarcangelo di Romagna; it was a former gravel pit. We lived in trucks and our homes were all self-built traveling houses. They were very beautiful; I was very happy there, then that's where my children were born. Lola in 1992 and Ezra in 1995. Together with the Mutoids I did shows only in Italy, precisely because my children were small, but they traveled a lot around Europe and also in other coutries. With the Mutoids there was also an Australian man, Robin, who was one of the founders of Burning Man in the Nevada desert. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Until today, I din't know very well the Ducati microcameras because I am more interested in other kind of cameras, so you can imagine the surprise I had when I kept the little Sogno in my hands. The Ducati is quite smaller of my Pentax Q, the camera I used to take the three pictures you see in this page, and it's very heavy (245 grams). </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com040132 Borgo Panigale BO, Italia44.5218881 11.27664600000002821.755158599999998 -30.031947999999971 67.2886176 52.585240000000027tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-64682686236699244352017-05-19T18:16:00.000+02:002017-05-20T14:51:35.534+02:00Gioacchino del Balzo: the man beside the Pirelli Calendar during the fashion golden age<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tony Graffio: Good morning Mr. Del Balzo, I contacted you because I knew you have been the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pirelli Calendar</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Executive Producer for a long time. Now that you have anymore obbligation with that Company I would like to know what you really did in those days and how it happpened Pirelli became so popular everywhere with its precious gadget. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Goodbye Gioacchino: Good morning Mr. Graffio. Yes, that's true, I followed that project for almost 18 years, until 2012. Then, I had enough of it, because the world has changed quite a bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Surely, you will have a lot of interesting things to tell about this prestigious project. I came to you also because I am passionate about printing techniques and I've been able to find the first typographer who printed the Calendar in 1963 and also the last firm charged to work on it now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Interesting. Most of the printers I used were in England. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Yes, I know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: I had two typographies in England and then I had a very good print coordinator. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: I met here in Milan one of the printers of the 1963 Calendar. I hope you will satisfy a few couriosities I have. First of all, I would like to understand why that edition is not mentioned as the first one?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: The 1963 Pirelli Calendar was made as a test and it was not fully endorsed. It was never distributed, it circulated very little and in the catalog it is considered a form of newcomer. The idea, which was born within the English marketing office, was to represent women from various countries along with the product to be sold. Then, the brand autonomy was very strong, even at local level. The Calendar has always been conceived and printed, regardless of the fact that I was concerned with the project, and it has always been the expression of a British reality, in an English environment that was much more favorable to this initiative, for a thousand reasons. In Italy, it has never been easy to create such projects. Believe me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: I can imagine it... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: I left this environment after so many years, even because it was a bit Italianized during the last years... Anyway, the first calendar makes a bit of a story in itself; it is considered out of print by Mondadori and by the German publisher Taschen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Is it a rarity of great value? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: I think in England there is one copy in the archive, but you can not find it elsewhwere. We have shown it in various publications to explain the story, not for a collecting matter. The most valuable editions, of course, are the first ones, while the value of the editions of recent years is quite insignificant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: I understand. I'm not a collector, but I'm interested in many things. From a printing point of view, some collectors told me also the first calendars were very well</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> made</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Definitely. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: The Calendar in England and in the Anglo-Saxon countries had come to the top of the success, and then was stopped for practical reasons. In 1971, Pirelli merged with Dunlop and the complexity of the Merge of the two companies did not facilitate marketing projects. It's also true that in the following years an important oil and economic crisis emerged, inducing Pirelli to make a pause. The Communication Project was considered perhaps ephemeral for the context of the time. In the pictures of the 1982 Calendar, it was decided to show the tyre, at least as a reminder, more or less evident in the photographs, something that had never been conceived before. Beautiful Models were quickly chosen and we did traveled to exotic places where pictures were shot in total freedom, spontaneously. From this mode of action, there have been moments of great sensuality that have become mythical. Between 1983 and 1992 it was chosen, instead, to show a sign of the product. The idea was not wrong and some great photographers like Norman Parkinson in 1985 and Arthur Elgort in 1990 were able to propose this element in a fairly veiled manner. In 1988, this purpose was a bit too present and recreated a somewhat forced setting, imposing a theme that obliged the photographer to reduce part of his creativity. I think that at that moment the Calendar was losing that Magic Feeling and Exclusivity have marked it in the past. It was at that moment that we decided, in agreement with Pirelli Management, that we had to return to the origins and the origins were freedom and sensuality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: There are some beautiful editions with Avedon and Herb Ritts photographers. The first Herb Ritts Calendar for me was perhaps the beginning of an era of enthusiasm</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and great emotional creativity. Models were very beautiful and spontaneous and the photographer was perfectly able to convey the great female sensuality. He had had fully absorbed the concept of Robert Freeman: "Let's go to a wonderful place and let's take a picture." There were no schemes. We came back from the trip and we picked the 12 or 13 best pictures. That was enough to make an exceptional product. Then, we went to Avedon asking him not to set limits. The novelty I think I have introduced is that a Calendar should not be linked to the number of the months. One month might even have three or four solutions. Or we introduced the quarterly period... Everyone started inventing other solutions, because it was a shame to discard the photos that were successful. Avedon presented up to 24 pictures, we agreed on a version of the natural woman and of the dressed woman. All photographs were a decision, 90% of the photographer. Then the last word, whether to delete one or more shot it was up to us and to the Pirelli management. At that time there was a total freedom for both, the artist and art director and they accepted these choices. Photography is largely subjective, but there are also objective factors. The photographs were taken by great photographers who first produced the Polaroids in large format, to better feel and understand the situation and the ambience and to achieve what they felt was an outstanding picture. With the digitization it's all changed, you shoot millions of photograps and then pull out what you need in an infinite number of shots... At the end, of course it's easy to choose the best! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Digitizing is all different. If somebody snaps 10,000 photos it's easy to obtain twenty beautiful pictures! (Laughter) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: But of course they are all retouched, the digital medium allows to do it and it's always done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: I saw a French publication that also reported some pretty scandalous images. Was there an internal censorship that tended to exclude the most audacious shots? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: The concern not to go too far there has always been, we tried to play on the nuances of certain atmospheres. Let's say that sometimes some choices have generated a bit of a debate, like the shots of Terry Richardson. The French television has talked about this (of pictures not approved ndTG)! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Budgets have been declared. The models did not earn much, while the photographers were paid, in my time, from 100,000 to 500,000 dollars. The models were paid around $ 10,000. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Overall budget for the whole operation how much was it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: It was around two million dollars. It was not huge and the return was big. Do you know how much it was? 60 times as much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Wow! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Yeah, because if you count all the advertising pages, the television minutes passages, the radio, and the rest, you would have spent or invest, much higher. The news was talking of "The Cal" for at least a quarter of an hour. In Italy the TV show "Porta a Porta" (Italian popular talk show kept by the RAI ndTG) spoke of it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: When? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2003-2004. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Now the Calendar makes much less news, why? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: In my opinion, the Calendar has lost the spontaneity of its great origin. The Great Calendar were the ones that left the photographer the freedom to express his creativity. When I do not accept the choice of a photographer I'm forced to work with, I'm automatically faced with a non-creative choice... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Who normally did choose the photographers? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: At 99% I chose them, I knew everyone, I had the technical skills. The calendar was made 100% in England until 2010, probably the print was then brought to Italy for having more control over the final product. The world has changed and we began to hear about purchasing office that intervened. When they began to argue, to make auctions to find a typographer, the photographer had automatically lost his creativity. I do not argue that we have to stay within market prices, but there is way and way to make certain choices. Once, there were very competent and professional British printers. In addition, this also provided a logistic plan and particular privacy. This world has changed between 2009 and 2010. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: The Management for legitimate reasons was more careful about cost and less about creativity? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: I believe that it is now a business trend in all areas. It is not that before costed more than now, but the over reacted</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">attention to the costs inevitably reflects on creativity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: In the early 1990s, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the world's most famous calendar was printed in </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">40,000 copies a year, later by half, and now? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: We printed 40,000 copies to spread it all over the world, now the thing is very complex, we say it's also a marketing tool. When I was in charge of producing it in England, I had to make it known to the world; We introduced it to China, Soviet Union in South America and the whole world. We have organized Calendar launches and events in Rio, New York, Paris, London, Berlin, and Naples to try to make it more known. It was an Anglo-English and even Italian reality, and then slowly it spread to the world. Over the last few years, the circulation has been reduced to 15,000 copies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: I've heard about 12,000. Why? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Probable. At the beginning of 2000 there was more spread because each country where Pirelli operated was calling for a number of calendars that were spread, let's say among VIPs. Diffusion number was also the criterion for debiting the Calendar cost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: At first the calendars were distributed primarily to the sellers? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: No, they were given to the garage. We have to divide everything in four decades. In the 1960s / 1970s, British VIP and a number of important English garages were given. In the '80s in England and to the Anglo-Saxon countries, the VIP and something came to Italy. In the 1990s, when I was busy, it was spread all over the world, of course, through the local business management. Lately, people talk a lot less of it, why? As you make the calendar visible to everyone, it makes it much less interesting and more accessible. Before, to see a photograph you needed a miracle. We distributed 3 or 4 photographs all over the world. Some could take pictures of the Calendar, if they did, but if they put it on the internet without authorization we pursued them legally, because we wanted this to be a much desired object and not seen much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: So, you needed to talk a lot of it without to show much... now it is the opposite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Right, now things have changed. I have no relationship with Pirelli, but it is clear that the project has less exclusive features! Today, perhaps, it has become more difficult to talk about it, we need to communicate and repeat continuously. The news disappears quickly! For this reason, I am convinced that showing little creates curiosity, expectation and aspiration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: People have little memory, with the internet talking about something for a day, but the next day everyone already thinks of something else. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: I agree, things have changed a bit. We can talk about it, but we used to play the little mysteries too: we gave a little news before the summer and then, in a second time, when the Calendar was launched. They were small teasers with great results! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Now there are also lots of videos on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwVa_fJC1LQ">making of</a>. What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Yes, on Youtube. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Why? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Lately, parts of the footage have been given to the public. <a href="https://vimeo.com/72370848">The original full video lasts 20-25 minutes</a>. I think it's wrong to do such a thing. Creating a commercial spread of the Calendar loses the aspiration of having an exclusive product. If I always see a certain thing, I no longer have the desire to have it. This is an elementary rule. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: There is no waiting that is part of the desire. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Exactly! I remember that when we brought Sofia Loren to the United States, to California, we announced her arrival and all the American News talked of her since 8 am. We had given a picture for Sofia Loren's back stage and the whole world talked of her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: It is difficult to balance something to show with something to hide. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: It's tough, I agree, but me and the one who took care of the central management, a dear friend, we got the right results. The Calendar was a mythical product that over the time lost its extraordinary name because it was shown too much. One time, of a calendar made up of 20 photographs, half of it could not be seen, even on the Internet. What we put on our web site could not be copied, there were several systems to limit this diffusion of images. Anyone who received our photo was a privileged one, we distributed a very small number of photographs so everyone wanted to have them. Then, there were those who smuggled the photo because it was firing from the calendar, something that made us play. It was good for us to have someone who photographed the picture of the picture, because so it was spoken in a clandestine way, not in an official way, do you understand? Who copied the photograph was someone who was not linked to the official site; It was not the "Corriere della Sera" or the Times of London... That meant that somebody was talking of it, there was a bit of chaos and then the thing fell there. Big expectation was created. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Back to the print, what specifications were required and what techniques were used? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: It was all above the photographer to approve the quality by going to see the first print tests to see if the colours were right and whether certain qualities were fine. Once, the photographer went on a typography for a whole month before he could fix the print colours; it was a much more complicated job from that point of view. This was normal until 2007-2008, we are not talking about prehistoric times. The digital infographic then simplified the work a lot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Why do people who work with Pirelli, I'm talking about typography, can not even publicly to be an important partner in making such a prestigious product? In this company near Bergamo, where they now manage print management on printed paper, on behalf of large international brands, using external suppliers, they would be happy to tell everything to me, but they cannot. At the end, Pirelli does not pay much, and in addition, whoever offers his services must partially give up their image return, although later there is an indication of the names in the final credits. Is this right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: Now they cannot speak for contract, but once in the Calendar, the name of the printing company was imprinted, and the company that used the printing found this great advertising that allowed us to get great prices for the Workmanship we asked from them. I believe that the current Management has opted for new rules. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: I know the first typographer to deal with was here in Milan, it was called GBM; While now they print from the parts of Treviso, from Antigua Graphics. In England, who was working on this work? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: A typography that has now closed, Pure Print, its print coordinator was Mike Welles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: How do calendars look like the last two years? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: A bit different from what they used to be; I think they reflect the big changes that have happened to Pirelli quite clearly. There is no longer the fantasy of the old times. Naked or half-naked should be seen as a message that can speak of a fairly precise theme. Annie Leibovitz is a perfect poster photographer for American Vanity Fair; She is a very nonconformist woman; It does wonderful things, but in my opinion she has a vision of life without imagination. I think Peter Lindbergh worked a lot better, a bit like the Patrick Demarchelier of the best years: these are photographers capable of making wonderful images, but also having a cultural message, do you understand? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GdB: No problem. If you had asked me 10 years ago it would have been different. At that time I had 50 people who were foolish to have one. There were people who obsessed me for a whole month to have it. Did you know how many people asked me last year? Only one! Now I did not ask for them anymore, but if you want it, I can make an exception. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com0Via Rovello 3, 20121 Milan, MI, Italia45.467372999999988 9.1842427000000271-28.018208000000008 -156.05013229999997 90 174.41861770000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-5914334686883307612017-03-14T17:57:00.002+01:002017-03-14T17:57:46.572+01:00Who is the artist. The opinion of Fabio Castelli<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Art is research, those who do not research are not artist." Anonymous</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fabio Castelli: Well, this is one of the fundamental themes of this dichotomy between the world of art and the world of photography. Many artists are offended when they are called photographers and many photographers feel offended when they are called artists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FC: Absolutely. I give you an example. If a war photographer is called artist this is like questioning his ability to describe reality. Actually, maybe he was able to show reality at the risk of his own life, so it is understandable his aversion to the idea of being called artist. More and more classic photographers, maybe a little old fashioned, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">do not want to accept photography as a contemporary art language. I</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">t's easy to recognize them because they are people who are very attached to the mediums by which they have lived since they were very young. For them it is very difficult to change this approach, but it is clear that over the years also photography will be recognized by everybody as a language of the contemporary art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FC: This is a problem that affects all the arts: the painter, the sculptor, who makes performances or who draws collides against this difficulty. Regardless of how we express ourselves, it is difficult to be recognized as artists. Probably, time is the only major means able to show whether an author is an artist, in any way he expresses himself.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com0Piazza Lina Bo Bardi, 20124 Milano, Italia45.480672899999988 9.1964778999999922.713938899999988 -32.112116100000009 68.247406899999987 50.50507189999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-27668559966258079822017-02-15T23:30:00.002+01:002019-03-15T09:42:50.205+01:00Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie: two pioneers of the Super8 Renaissence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Post-mechanical age, the humaness of the machine can be made evident. Post mechanical age, machine craft is the new hand craft. In the evening of june, 30th 2016, 7 recent film works from australian DIY cine experimentalists Richard Tuohy and Diana Barrie were presented to the audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dot Matrix is a dual 16mm film involving two almost completely overlapping projected images. The "dots" were produced by photogramming sheets of dotty paper used for Manga illustrations directly onto raw 16mm film stock. These dots were then contacted printed with "flicker" (alternating black frames)creating strobing "interruptions" to the dots. The drama of the film emerges in the overlap of the two projected images of dots. The product they make is greater than the parts. The sounds heard are those that the dots themselves produce as they pass the optical sound head of the 16 mm projector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Richard Tuohy: Ok Tony. I'm 46 (At the time of the interview. He was born on 12/8/1969) years old, I'm from Melbourne, Australia, but I live in the country, in a town called Daylesford wich is one hour and half away from Melbourne. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">In Daylsford, Dianna Barrie and I have our own lab, </span><a href="http://www.nanolab.com.au/processing.htm" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">Nanolab</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> which is partly a commercial lab for Super 8 processing, but Nanolab is also a big lab space with several darkrooms. There, we work and other people can come, staying for a while and work with us having a sort of artist residency for making a film or whatever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We also run a lab in Melbourne called <a data-mce-href="http://www.artistfilmworkshop.org/" href="http://www.artistfilmworkshop.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Artist Film Workshop</a> which is a community lab like this (referring to Unzalab), a membership lab. Both of these films labs are listed on <a data-mce-href="http://www.filmlabs.org/index.php/labs/nanolab/" href="http://www.filmlabs.org/index.php/labs/nanolab/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">the filmlab.org</a> website, but they are quite different. My background is in philosphy, but I was making films before I started studying philosophy. I had a break while I was studying. I started making flms in the middle eightys, but they were a different kind of films to those I make now. In those days there was not internet, of course and there was a great scene in Melbourne for Super8 films. It was very, very vibrant. It was a very productive time. We had meetings once a month and there were always new films to show. In that context the enviroment of new films was very productive for me. None of us got to see films from anybody else. We saw only our own films. We were like this, just looking at ourselves, we didn't have an archive to look at, or a collections of films to look at. It was kind of good because we didn't worry about the canons. We didn't worry about the big figures of experimental films. We were just worried about ourselves. It was a good way to make work. In those days I was making narrative Super8 films, but I was watching experimental films made in the group. I was trying to make Ozu films!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">I came back to making films early in 2000 because we moved to a small town in the country and someone said: "You should come to the Super8 screening tonight". I thought: "What? A Super8 screening in Daylsford?". In those days Super8 was finished. I was sure it was finished. Ok, come on and make a film! So I thought I would make one last Super8 film, just for the old days. Then I went crazy and I made forty Super8 films. Working with Super8 was a very productive way to develop, because you could move quickly. I didn't have to process it, I could sent it to Kodak and edit it and then it was done. And then you could make something else. So you were able to develop your skills and ideas, themes, devices very quickly.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Quite quickly we got on developing our own films and started the lab. We still develop films by hand in spirals. I do have processing machines, but generally I prefere develope by hand. What is special is having printing machines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">RT: Yes we have, but I haven't actually set it up. We have an optical printer, a very simple one, a JK, but the most useful thing was our first contact printer. We have now 5 or 6 contact printer because they are too valuable to let them go, you know... I do different things and I get different results from the different machines. I think contact printers are very important. They allow you to go very quickly, at least at a practical level, from making one print to multiple prints. They can really improve the quality of the finished films because you don't have to handle the negative so much, or your original so much. Getting our first optical printer was a liberation because we had to make it work and we had to pull it apart, clean it up and put it back together, but in studying how it worked we could "bend" how to use it, we could make changes from what it was meant to do and play games with it. Personally, I think being able to spend time with the equipment is a very important in being able to explore and then understanding and exploit what the media is.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">RT: I Import it. I get it from Kodak Australia. They bring it in. If you ring Kodak Australia and you press the right button you end up in China. They send me their film and sometimes films from Wittner in Germany, or from Spectra in the USA. Other than us there are also a couple of shops that buy films sometimes from us, sometimes from Kodak, but mostly we are the sellers of super 8 film nowadays. It didn't use to be like that. It used to be our film stock sales was just a small thing because there were other shops. When there was reversal film there were a lot of shops that sold it, but now there is mostly negative film with Super8.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">RT: No, we don't do that commercially, we only work with Super8. Sometimes, if they do a flashback, a dream sequence or something like that, if they use Super8 they deal with us, but I don't want to work with 16mm commercially. For me, the commercial side of the business is only a way of supporting our own film work and I don'want to make a big empire. I just want to keep it going, we can process Super8 very efficiently and we can't do 16mm efficiently. I can process 30 Super 8 in about one hour and half, while I could maybe process two 16mm films in the same amount of time. So it just doesn't make economic sense. I don't need to do it.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: normal;">RT: I hope so. Yes, I think it is an adequate description. I like that. Certainly, I think it's more about optics than cinema, but in a certain way it's trying to take something apart regarding the cinema mechanism. One of the things that I find fascinating is the fundamental transformation that happens in the film projector - the transformation from a long continuous strip of film into little discrete pictures that end up generating the appearance of movement on the screen. When you work with rayograms, which are like photograms, that transition from continuous strip to discrete images is really brought to the front. </span><span style="line-height: normal;">You experience just what the projector is doing to the continuous strip by arbitrarily making this division into frames. The game with rayograms, for me, is to do something that plays with this fundamental transformation at the heart of cinema from continuous strip to discrete pictures that does something interesting on the screen. Often when people do rayograms it just goes quick, quick, quick and it doesn't seem to be working with the mechanism. The game for me is to find something that work with the mechanism of the 24 frames per second.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">RT: No, I can make more. They are prints. However, by cleaning the projectors I can project the films a great many times without particularly damaging the copies. We have made 70 projections from the two films of Dot Matrix. Film is tough as long as you know how to use the projector.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Dianna Barrie makes her own films; Richard and Dianna makes films together and Richard makes his own films, but they put each other names on the films because the other person is always there and he or she gives advices, it is helping or do the sound, the music or whatever. Dianna made the music for many Richard Tuohy's films.</b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com2Daylesford VIC 3460, Australia-37.35 144.14999999999998-37.450983 143.98863849999998 -37.249017 144.31136149999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-15196184856505835182017-01-15T10:46:00.000+01:002017-01-17T09:27:41.491+01:00Mimosa Photo Papier: a collectible item found in a flea market in Milan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last summer, before to leave for the vacation, I visited a flea market in the quarter where I live in Milan and I found an interesting framed item. It was a picture with inside two </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">packs of </span><a href="http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mimosa" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mimosa</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> barita photographic paper and a typewritten sheet of paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both the packs, made in Kiel, were new and contained 10 sheets of 5X7 inches of Mimosa photo sensitive paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Two packs of Mimosa Rapido Bromosa SP11 and SP12 Made in West Germany framed with a unreadable sheet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was in a hurry and I didn't want to carry the picture with me, so I didn't buy it. It costed something like 20 or 30 euros: I thought to come back to the second hand storehouse after the summer, but I forgot to do it, so I have no idea if somebody else bought this item. Probably yes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also thought to open the glass, open the packs and use the paper to print some old picture, but obviously I couldn't do this because I don't have the paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Italy in the past produced very good photographic papers, so it was strange for me founding a german sensitive paper that probably was not even so easy to buy here in Milan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's <i>impossible</i> to obtain photos completely clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you don't count them it's <i>impossible</i> to know how many photos have left inside the camera because there has not a counter for this funtion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Impossible film quality is poor and not constant. Buying a film pack is always a surprise, also because the film shoud be kept in the fridge before the use and it's <i>impossible</i> to know how the seller retained the film.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Holography is the demonstration that when a technique is performed in a perfect manner, the result that is obtained is artistic." TG</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/11/august-muth-un-moderno-alchimista.html">Last april at the MIA of Milan I met August Muth</a> the best holographer in the world. Holography is a real 3D kind of photography more practiced in the '80s that in the years later. This technique desappeared because holography films were discontinued. This is the interview I recorded with Mr. August Muth that explains how he has been able to bypass this problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">August Muth: Yes, we are very indipendent (he laughs).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: So, at first I would like to understand why holography is here in a photography art exhibition?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Well, as we utilize a photo sensitive emulsion formula that was developed in the early 1840's; before the current emulsions had been not even discovered. It goes back for a very long time, it was one of the very first sensitive liquid emulsion and has a different type of light recording than a phtograph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: In general no, it's something very new to them, but in terms of the world knowing holography there are many things in nature that they are basically holograms. Like the colours in bird feathers or in butterflies wings; they all use similar structures how holograms break light up to the colours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Holography was quite popular in the '80s, also myself I learnt how to make an hologram with a laser and simple instruments. What has changed in these last 30 years?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Technologically the latest development in holography had to do with digital holography, where they take digital files and convert them in holograms. I'm not very interested in it because I really believe in a pure form where you utilising just the laser light itself to make the hologram. And they are extremely high resolution, much higher then any resolution of any other media that exist on the planet at this time. Something like 10 billions pixels per inch. When we make a hologram it records the molecular structure of the material that the hologram subject is made of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Yes, there is something that people are calling holograms in video, but what they are is different. There are video displays systems. I see these more and more now on the web, people talking how they are making digital holograms, but in truth they are not making holograms at all. They are just paper ghosts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Would you like to talk a little bit about your education and your career please?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: I grow up in New Mexico wich is very much about light. Many artist from over the world travel to New Mexico because of the light. In the early age I was very interested in working with light and working in the realm of the photon. As I discovered holography I made a self training with this discipline beacause there is no educational system out there to train with holography. There are just a few people who do it. You have to learn from those people and then you go off and really self-train and discover how to improve the matter. And that's a lot of what I've done. I have developed a method where I'm making larger holograms with this emulsion in anyboby in the world. Soon I will do holograms much larger, so I 'm going to rebuild my studio to make 1,5 meter X 1,3 meter. When I will return to New Mexico that's what I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Is anybody collaboratig with you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Yes, <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/11/dora-tass-scolpire-con-la-luce.html">Dora Tass</a> came in my studio and we worked together to produce the typewriter series. She had the contacts in Italy, so we have been invited here to the show in this fair. I've never been to Italy before, so I decided to come here with my works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: No, holographic films don't exist anymore, we work only with gelatine emulsions, a very old process, and we coated in this way the glass plates. It's very much like in the very first photographs. We make the hologram on the gelatine and then we laminated another piece on glass on top to the gelatine to protect it from the enviroment. Essentially from scratches and things like that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: What's the difference in working with film and with gelatine emulsion?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: The emulsion I use doesn't really has grain at all. The structure is very fine so you can obtain a extremely high resolution, but very few people work with this emulsion because you have to coat it quicky because it only has two weeks lifetime after you make the emulsion on the glass. Then it's dead and it's not good anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Yes, and I make my own formula; it's like I make my own paint, because the formula as to do with what colours you research. Results depends by different formulas I mix and how old emulsion is. If it is fresh you get ones and if it has aged you obtain a different palette. So, it's very alchemical and I don't follow the same palette all the times. I'm very loose with my technology. Producing holograms is an experience more then obtaining the exact results I want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM A lot of experimentation, yes. To see what would works and what it wouldn't work.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Are you able to obtain the holograms immediately or you need to try more times before to have a good result?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Sometimes it takes many, many tries to get the result because the emulsion I use is very unsensitive to light so the exposure time is seven minutes. If anything move more than 1/10'000'000'000 of a meter in 7 minutes you don't get the hologram because the laser light ought has a phase with itself, so there is nothing in there. Everything has to be very still for a long time, but occasionally things move and you have something that is not there at all. Sometime I move a piece a little bit and sometime they are totally still, so they are very clear and bright. It's all part of the creative process of what I do. Everything is very experiential.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Is your art appreciated in USA?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: It's well received, yes. I have many galleries there where I sell working, but at the same time it's something very new. People are not really used to this type of work and I'm really knowing that there is not much of this work in the United States, so there is nothing for people to compare it to. So, this is always a problem that I had. I'm very unique and individual in terms of this work, but at this point I've been doing it for 30 years and this is all I do. I don't do anything else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: No, not at degree at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: I've made many many things in my life: sculptur, photographer, for a while, when I was in college in my early days. This is by far the most difficult thing I've made in my life. In some parts of it, you must be very precise, very controlled and very scientific. In other parts of it I have to let it go and let nature be my partner in the creation of the holograms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: No. Those are not real holograms because they are the rays of two dimensionals film source, so it's not really a three dimensional source. I really like making true holograms, in the sense to have a real light information storage device, if you want to be scientific about it. They are real. Most people come to see my work and they say: "Ah this is a great illusion!". No. They are real. What we see is the illusion, we see the light in a eye transfer to electro to chemical impulse, back to electro impulse to the brain. In our perceptions this is reality, or what we think reality is. Hologram is reality, just it has no mass. Because it doesn't need any mass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: In the USA usually, in my galleries, my pieces go for $ 18'000 to $ 22'000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Between 40 and 80 hours from start to finish a piece. There are many many steps, from coat the emulsion on the glass to make the exposure of the hologram. Then I have to process, to laminated and to finish the glass and creating a framing system for. There are many processes in what I do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Oh yes, it takes days doing these things, because when I coat the emulsion I have only one week of time or two days in summertime when the days are warm and humid. In wintertime when the weather is cold and dry I have to wait 4-5 days before the plates dry up. Sometimes, just the heat from my hands would go into the glass and bend the glass and so you have to wait from overheat until the glass relax again, so the glass is not bending during the exposure time. So basically everything is nearly seattled. I load a plate one day and next night I make the hologram. I load a plate next day and the nex night I make the hologram.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Yes, I would say yes. There may be a few people hobbyist who do it, but I am the only one who is doing this at professional levels. And Dora. <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/11/dora-tass-scolpire-con-la-luce.html">Dora</a> comes to my studio and collaborates. I consider her as my partner. I have facilities like no other in the world, so the only way other people could produce is collaborating with me. Some people collaborating with me to produce my works and I'm able to collaborate to produce their. It's a very fluid collaboration we have (I heard from other source, a gallerist, that also James Turrell holograms are produced by August Muth).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AM: Yes. I don't use masters. I want each piece is individual light recording. It's the recording of half the light interacted with the subject one year ago or six months ago. As if you look at the stars you look at the light emitted by the stars millions years ago, but you look at the present. When you look at a hologram you look how the light reacted with the subject matter one year ago, also in the present. There is an analogy with the stars and what I do. There is a communality also in photography and what I do because I'm parcially using really old photographic techniques. Platinum photography is much more sensitive than dichromate gelatine, what I do is dichromate, and it is 4 or 5 times less sensitive than silver halides emulsions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My experience with the 8mm go back at the sixties, when I was a very little child and my uncle gave me his Eumig for shooting a scene at the seaside. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were fully in the Kodacolor years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last time I projected the footage I shot, around 10 years ago, I still was very surprised of my early ability in filming and of the brilliance of the colours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently, we are re-discovering many things about our past and of the old tecnologies we used to film, to photograph or to listen to the music and we understand how much love the producers put in building films, lens and all the mechanical gear we used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nearly everything was hand made or required hand mounting, hand finishing and human competence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thanks to a very cheap chinese D mount adapter I could give a new life, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">on a digital photo camera,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> at a precious wide angle lens unused for too much time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My Pentax Q with a Switar 5,5 mm f 1,8 (serial number 827243) and the D mount P/Q adapter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This means that there is a little difference between the two formats, also if the 8mm was born around 80 years before the digital Pentax Q. And it could be possible to cover the new format with the old lens, also if it is possible having some problems with the wide angles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I estimate that a focal lenght of 5,5mm on a Pentax Q format should correspond at a 28mm on a 24X36 mm frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before the Sunrise. Milan, via Farini. November 13th 2016. Pentax Q + Switar 5,5mm f 18 Iso 125; 1/25 sec. f 4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The lens is gorgeous, is made with aluminium and brass and has the optical coating. The iris is continuos and has 8 blades. The minimum focus distance is very short: cm 11, so we nearly could call this Kern: Macro Switar. The focusing ring, as the iris ring is very smooth and precise. In this way if we need to open the iris, make the focus and close again the iris, it's possible to make this operation without to change the focusing distance by mistake. But we still need to make attention because the dimensions of the 5,5mm are quite small. Made in Switzerland at the end of the 50's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been able to use the Switar 5,5mm on my ca</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">mera without change the distance at the infinity focus, but the distance reported on the ring didn't correspond at a real value, so I could focus only watching the display of my Pentax Q.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The lens came from a Bolex Paillard DL8. I tested other lens coming from other cameras, as some Claston and others Kern coming from a Bolex Paillard B8. I found that the lens coming from the B8 were the only lens usable on my Pentax Q without perform a new collimation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Optical collimation is a corretion made with some thin rings to put on the back of the attacmente of the lens so that infinity focus coincides exactly on the focal plan, where the sensor or the film is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because the Pentax Q format is larger than the standard 8mm there is a strong vignetting on the corners of the images. Distorsion is weak, but visible. Chromatic distortion is also visible because the colours focus on different plans on film and on CMOS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Working with a full manual lens on a automatic focus digital camera is never funny, you lose time and you need to make additional clicks to be sure to be on focus: also because it's possible to move the focus ring by mistake when you close down the iris after you focused the subject at the iris wide open. Kern-Paillard are the best optics you can find, not only for 8mm, but also for other formats, like 35mm, but using them on a digital camera could be done only to find vintage atmospheres, having an alternative to change lens, for fun, for trying something new, or because these lens are very, very fast. They are not so suggested for a use in colour photography: I think it has more sense use them for black and white photography or for videomaking. Best again for filmaking, also beacause you can still order your 8mm (double 8mm, if you prefere), Super8 or 16mm at <a href="http://www.wittner-kinotechnik.de/katalog/04_filmm/d8_filmm.php">http://www.wittnerkinotechnik.de/katalog/04_filmm/d8_filmm.php</a> TG</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.1417px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>For almost two years, I document and diffuse indipendently the works of the artists of our time through the pages of <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/">graffitiamilano.blogspot.it</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.1417px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>In view of the opening of my blog ortodossiafotografica, I was moved to find photographers whose story deserves to be told and maybe support them technically and economically in their projects.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.1417px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>During summer 2014 I met "The Lightcatcher," I listened to his ideas, and let myself be charmed by his beautiful and courageous project; I understood the difficulties that presented some aspects of his business, so I decided to do something to help him.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 18.1417px;">From the time, I was also fascinated by the idea of contributing to preserve ancient knowledge of</span><span style="line-height: 18.1417px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.1417px;">almost lost</span><span style="line-height: 18.1417px;"> techniques and to promote those involved in these projects.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.1417px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>In this way Ortodossia Fotografica and Frammenti di Cultura have born as cultural initiatives with the aim to create objects of technical use which are difficult to find on the market of the new millennium, or totally out of production, elements that can be built only with traditional methods.</b></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-22759871339038895652016-10-01T21:53:00.001+02:002016-10-01T22:25:34.779+02:00The Bolaskop Benatti Polaroid Prototype n.4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">few weeks ago, a </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">friend of mine, knowing my passion for photography, called me telling to have something very interesting to show me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2015/05/lultimo-supereroe-di-milano-e-un.html">Alex Gordon</a> is an extravagant person, but he is very honest and sincere, so I really expected to see something very strange and rare... Alex like me lives in Milan and he is a camera operator. He is always very busy, so a morning we met in an ice-cream shop in Bovisa, close to <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2015/05/nel-cuore-della-bovisa-lultimo-minilab_3.html">Emma Canepari's Speed Photo Shop</a> and I saw for the first time in my life a Bolaskop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is the Leica CL a real Leica? This is not a problem for me. I like Leica cameras, but I'm not a maniac of this brand, they are just a little bit too expensive for me, expecially in these days many people is looking for Leitz lens to mount them on the new digital Leicas. Years ago, I owned a very nice Leica M4 with a Summicron f 2, the results were stunning, but I was used to my Nikon F2 so, after a while, I sold the M4 thinking to break-up definitively my relationship with the german red dot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last march I went to the Castel San Giovanni second hand photographic market and when I found a Leica CL at 130 euros I decided to buy it also if the lightmeter was not working and there was not any lens on the camera body. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com0Milano, Italia45.4654219 9.1859243000000145.2872319 8.86320080000001 45.6436119 9.508647800000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-68499435171125230662016-06-21T23:15:00.002+02:002016-06-26T09:51:52.548+02:00Caméras vielles et glorieuses: la Pathé Baby 9,5 mm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Introduit en 1921 comme un format cinématographique économique pour voir des films commerciales à la maison, le Pathé Baby, l'année suivante, devient aussi une pellicule pour prendre des scènes familieres, ou bien des souvenirs d'amateurs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ses caracteristics sont une largeur de 9,5mm et simples trous d'entraînement situez au milieu de la pellicule, entre les cadres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Si d'une part la perforation centrale permet de façon très intelligente de tirer la meilleure partie du cadre, de l'autre est aussi la principale limite de ce format. Malheureusement, le centre du cadre est toujours sujet aux rayures en raison du plus petit problème de mâchoire traînant si on utilisent de projecteurs de mauvaise qualité.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Le format 9,5 mm utilisait une seule perforation centrale entre chaque paire d'images permettant d'avoir plus d'espaces sur le film pour le cadre impressioné.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Le 9,5 mm est né en France dans <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVKaVAR9iE">l'</a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVKaVAR9iE">Établissement</a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVKaVAR9iE"> Pathé de Joinville, Paris</a>. Ce format a eu une bonne diffusion en France, Allemagne, Royaume-Uni et </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">États-Unis,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> mais il n'a jamais obtenu de grands succès en Italie, bien que certains types de films sont encore disponibles (chez Colour City en France). Les rares utilisateurs de ce type de film ne sont que peu d'amateurs. Il y a des clubs en France, en Espagne, en Angleterre et même dans les </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">États-Unis</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. Au moment de sa propagation, et jusqu'au début des années trente, ce type de film a été souvent utilisé comme un format pour des projections dans des lieux privés ou dans des clubs.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> N</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ombreux films célèbres</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ont été réimprimés d</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ans ce format</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Pour raisons de sécurité, Pathé Baby 9,5mm utilisait film de sécurité avec une base d'acétate de cellulose, à difference du 35mm qui était fabriqué en nitrate de cellulose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">L'interieur d'une caméra Pathé Baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cette caméra et beaucoup de photos dans ce service de "Ortodossia Fotografica" ont été fournies par<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/06/il-rivoluzionario-cine-film-scanner.html">Matteo Ricchetti</a></span> qui a construi un formidable télécinéma multiformat (<a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/06/il-rivoluzionario-cine-film-scanner.html">voir la page en italien sur "Frammenti di Cultura"</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Une autre camérà Pathé Baby. Cette fois mise à disposition par <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2015/12/felice-quacquarella-una-vita-tra.html">Felice Quaquarella et son Musée Privé du Cinéma Amateur</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre;">le site de l'usine de La Marque à Tulle, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre;">pour y produire des appareils </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre;">de bicyclette. A l'Usine de La Marque seront produit des systèmes </span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Les projecteurs Pathé Baby seront mis sur le marché </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre;">à Noël 1922.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com0Parigi, Francia48.856614 2.352221900000017748.6894645 2.0294984000000178 49.0237635 2.6749454000000177tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-69856925876115332732016-06-13T23:00:00.001+02:002016-11-01T08:31:00.781+01:00Corinne Héraud, le pelliculage à jet d'encre et ses séries artistiques<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Héraud est née en France, dans un petite ville près de Lyon en
1971. Elle a d'abord travaillé dans des univers éloignés de la
photographie (attachée de presse dans une agence de marketing et
monitrice d'équitation) et a commencé a photographer à 30 ans avec
une des prèmieres reflex numérique: la Fuji S1 Pro.</span><span style="line-height: normal;"> Avec cette
camera Corinne apprende les bases de la technique (vitesses,
diafragmes, profondeur de champ) et tout ce qu'il faut savoir pour la
prise de vues. Parallèlement graâce à un ami qui lui offre un viel
agrandisseur 24X36 elle s'initie aussi à la photo argéntique.</span><span style="line-height: normal;"> Elle
découvre ensuite le travail à la chambre 4x5 et se passionne pour
le pelliculage de Polaroid.<br />Aujourd'hui Corinne mélange du
numérique avec du Polaroid et ne s'interdit aucune technique. L'idée
qui la guide dans sa démarche artistique est la grande richesse des
possibilités d'expression creative offertes par la
photographie.<br />Corinne a acheté et stocké beaucoup de films
Polaroid pour son usage personnelle.<br />Sa technique de pelliculage à
jet d'encre est unique. J'ai réncontré cette artiste en avril 2016
au MIA Photo Fair de Milan. TG</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tony Graffio: Bonjour Corinne, pouvez vous dire quelque chose de vous et de votre experience professionnelle?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Corinne Héraud: D'accord. En termes d'experience professionnelle je suis autodidacte, je n'ai aucune formation artistique et maintenant cela fait une dizaine d'année que je travaille avec la photographie. Il y a duex choses qui sont très important dans ma façon de travailler. Premièrement j'utilise des procedés alternatifs avec l'idée de produire une photographie dans laquelle il se passe des choses, des accidents. </span></span><span style="line-height: 100%;">Pour
cela je peux travailler à partir de photographies numériques ou de
Polaroïd périmés mais je mets toujours en œuvre une technique
aléatoire pour le «tirage». Par exemple, sur la série des
"Auras", la base est un mélange de numérique et de
Polaroïd et j'ai réalisé les «tirages» avec des transferts de
pigments sur du papier aquarelle. Le principe est d'apporter une
touche manuelle sur chaque tirage de façon à ce que chaque image
devienne une œuvre unique. C'est une chose primordiale dans ma
démarche d'artiste. </span></span><br />
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travaille à partir de portraits pris sur l'écran de ma télévision.
Je m'intéresse aux figurants des talks-shows, les personnes qui
sont derrière les invités ou les présentateurs, les anonymes qui
servent de tapisserie vivante pour animer le background. Il m'arrive
de travailler avec des sujets masculins, mais il est vrai que je me
concentre beaucoup sur les femmes. Ce qui m'intéresse dans cette
démarche c'est de travailler sur cette espèce d'ambiguïté entre
une image télévisée qui n'a pas beaucoup de sens, qui est vouée
à disparaître et l'œuvre finale sur laquelle je passe beaucoup
de temps avec mes procédés manuels. Je prends un plaisir fou à
«anoblir» ces portraits satellisés au sens propre du terme.
Lentement, avec patience je redonne une certaine éternité à ces
images qui, à la base, ne sont vouées à rien.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 100%;">CH:
La première s'appelle les "Ic</span><span style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="background: #f6f6f9;">ô</span></span><span style="line-height: 100%;">nes
cathodiques". C'est une série en noir et blanc qui marque
vraiment le début de ce travail avec les portraits télévisuels.
C'est une série que j'ai débutée en 2009, il y donc déjà
quelques années. J'ai employé une technique que j'appelle le
pelliculage jet d'encre, c'est à dire que je réalise un tirage que
je trempe dans un solvant de façon à décoller l'émulsion du
papier que je replace ensuite sur un autre support. C'est inspiré
de ce que l'on faisait avec la Polaroid parce que dans un premier
temps, j'ai beaucoup travaillé avec les Polaroids et notamment avec
les pelliculages que j'adorai. C'est d'ailleurs grâce aux
Polaroids que je suis venue à la photographie plasticienne et
artistique. Lorsque Polaroid a cessé de produire, je me suis mise en
quête de procédés qui pourraient me permettre de retrouver cette
technique. Depuis je suis sans cesse en train de chercher des idées,
des techniques et des medium nouveaux.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Il a fallu faire beaucoup d'experimentations?</span></div>
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Eh oui, absolument. </span><span style="line-height: 100%;">Ma
technique ne fonctionne qu'avec un seul papier et pour le trouver
j'en ai essayé 30 ou 40 différents ! C'était un gros
investissement et, enfin, j'ai trouvé ce papier qui me permet de le
faire, voilà ! Ça été un grand bonheur pour moi parce que j'ai
retrouvé ce plaisir de décoller l'émulsion, comme autrefois avec
les Polaroids. En plus, le résultat est très aléatoire avec des
effets de craquelures liés au temps de séchage, à l'humidité et à
la chaleur au moment du tirage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Après il faut coller l'émulsion sur un autre papier?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 100%;">CH:
Avec le solvant j'obtiens une espèce de peau est très fine, très
fragile que je récupère sur un papier japonais. C'est au moment du
séchage que les rétractations, les plis et les craquelures
apparaissent. Ensuite, je colle ce papier japonais sur un autre
support rigide. Pour les Icônes Cathodiques je les colle sur du
bois.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Très interessant. Vous partez d'un negative?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">CH: Non, a la base c'est un photo numerique de mon écran de télé prise avec un appareil qui n'a pas beaucou d'intér</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 31.9px; orphans: auto; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ê</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">t, quasi bas de gamme. Je m'interesse qu'à saisir <i>grosso modo</i> un visage, une silhouette, un peu de lumière, beaucoup de noirs et blancs, du flou pour créer quelque chose qui soit quasi universel. Je veux rester en <surface>. Ensuite, je fais un gros travail sur cette photographie brute pour amener les visage dans mon univers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">CH: Je fais un tirage noir et blanc avec une imprimante grand format à jet d'encre sur mon papier spécial qu'ensuite je trempe dans le solvent. C'est ce fameux papier qui a la particularité d'avoir l'emulsion que se décolle dans le solvent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Savez vous s'il y a quelcun d'autre qui pratique cette technique?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">CH: Sincerement, je crois pas. En tout cas, je n'ai jamais croisé qualcun qui pratiquait cette technique, mais ce n'est pas un situation très confortable car je suis tributaire d'un papiers qui n'est pas fabriqué pour cette usage artistique et le moindre changement dans l'émulsion (Ce que m'est déjà arrivé chez mon fornisseur) peux avoir un énorme impact sur le resultat voire m</span><span style="line-height: 16px;">ême rendre impossible ma technique.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 100%;">Et
comme je suis la seule à l'utiliser avec cette </span><span style="line-height: 100%;">fonction-là,
je suis un peu prisonniére. Mais si un jourcela ne fonctionne plus,
alors, ce ne sera pas très grave car je me remettrai à cercher
autre chose!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">CH: Oui, absolument. Mes tirages sont realisées avec des imprimantes professionnelle Epson et des encres pigmentaires, exactement comme celles utilisées puor le tirage vendus de façon générale sur le marché de l'art. De plus, j'ajoute En plus, j'ajoute de l'acrylique et des vernis. Mes tirage sont donc très protegées du temps qui passe et des UV.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Et pour les "Auras", comment vous réalisez la couleur?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">CH: Pour les Auras je travaille la couleur avec Photoshop, c'est donc un traitement numérique. Techniquement il s'agit d'un tirage dont je trasfère les pigments sur un autre support, en l'occurrence du papier aquarelle. Avec ce procédé assez</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> aléatoir aussi il peut avoir de <défauts> et c'est ce qui m'interesse a y beaucoup d'imperfections et c'est pour ça que m'interesse. Ce n'est pas un tirage qui sort diréctemente d'une imprimante et les relatives imperfections qu'on obtient partecipent à la vie des visages qui sont proposés.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TG: Est-ce que la couleur est la seule difference entre les deux séries? Ou m</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ême les soujets?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">CH: C'est surtout le temps qui est passé depuis 2009. Cela correspond à une évolution personnelle avec le besoin qui s'est fait sentir de travailler avec la couler. J'ai beaucoup </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">tâtonné pour trouver la façon de la faire intervenir dans mon travail mais aujourd'hui je le révendique enfin! Les Auras ne sont pas forcément plus <légérs> que les </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Ic</span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f9; line-height: 30.775px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ô</span></span><span style="text-align: justify;">nes Cathodiques, mais</span> Ia couleur est là!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com072600 Pizieux, Francia48.321770000000008 0.3310989000000290648.279536000000007 0.25041790000002906 48.364004000000008 0.41177990000002906tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-3961441917140102012016-06-12T11:05:00.000+02:002016-06-16T21:18:01.327+02:00Carline poses for Orpho<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you love visual arts and culture you know <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/">"Frammenti di Cultura"</a>, Tony Graffio's information website in italian language. If you read Orpho, Ortodoxia Photographica, the international website about photography and cinematography, you already know in these pages you can find news, reportages, curiosities, interviews, reviews of old cameras, tests and rare images. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wonderful Carline shows the "Ortodossia Fotografica" shopper, a gadget that Tony Graffio gives for free to the friends who will find him in Milan.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com0Milano, Italia45.4654219 9.1859243000000145.2872319 8.86320080000001 45.6436119 9.508647800000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-18773315652671017222016-05-28T09:25:00.003+02:002016-06-15T17:55:20.438+02:00An old Photo Shop in Genoa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif; ">Recently, I went to to Genoa to visit a <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/05/quando-larchitetto-e-lartista-diventano.html">couple of exhibitions</a> of which I wrote on <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/05/la-lucida-visione-di-lisetta-carmi-alla.html">"Frammenti di Cultura"</a>; as usual I took a walk in the Prè discrtict, in spite a few people advised me of the danger of that place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"I believe that the Chernobyl disaster should be seen as the main cause of the fall of the Soviet Union." Tony Graffio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">Paolo A. Restelli, author of the photo reportage I'm going to introduce you, went to visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after 30 years by the leakage of the radioactive cloud, because this is the half-life of the radioactive isotope derived as a byproduct of uranium nuclear fission that powered the nuclear reactor of the central Lenin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">It's particularly significant to analyze what is happening in these days in Ukraine, which has run the country that became independent from the former Soviet Union in 1990 and has bad relations with Russia. The entire continent is very worried, considering the fact that it is essential that there is always an effective dialogue between Europe, Ukraine and Russia in order to carry out the appropriate checks and to realize the necessary maintenance work for a containment structure of the radiations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">Photographing with little time available in a unknown risky place, in hardly favorable conditions it is not easy, despite this, Restelli did a great job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">A very sad picture that makes us understand how was the life before the disaster and makes us reflect on how many innocent children could not grow up and live a normal peaceful life for the madness of the adults.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">Here the first liquidators were hospitalized. The clothes of the liquidators were stored in the basement that has become so one of the most radioactive areas in the world, where you measure 400 microsieverts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">Pripyat ferris wheel had to be inaugurated on May 1st, 1986 but of course, no one has been able to use it and then the amusement park takes on a sinister meaning seen to our days. How the Soviets could imagine to bring their children to play close to a nuclear power plant?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Abandoned gas masks in the school of Pripyat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">The village of the <i>Duga</i> was called Chernobyl 2 and did not appear on any map. The Russians have always maintained that those iron pylons that make up the radar scanner, which being built 400 meters long and 170 high, at more than km 10 away furthermore are clearly visible, were the frame of a roller coaster of an entertainment park for children. To get there there was a straight long way of km 8. Within the Duga radar station there were buildings, shops, offices and all that was to outline the life of the soldiers and their families who lived there. It is not known precisely how many people inhabited that village because that is something that has always been kept secret. The Duga was a radar they called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1poYZCO7qk">"the Russian Woodpecker"</a> because it only emitted signals that resembled the beating of the bird against the trunk of the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hotel Pollica, Pripyat. This was the best Hotel of the Chernobyl Area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The nuclear plant of Chernobyl shot from the 16th floor of a building in Pripyat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">Nikolai Fomin, the guide approved by the military who accompanied Paul A. Restelli and its group of visitors during the two days in Chernobyl. In the background the Nuclear Lenin and the protective shield built by Novarka.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The harbour of Chernobyl, in the nearby slept the liquidators, or biorobots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">The liquidators were those "volunteers" who first shoveled radioactive graphite leaking from the reactor core of the nuclear power plant. The plate shows the phrase: "To the heroes who saved the world." The liquidators had only three minutes available to them, because of the high levels of radiation, they had been fitted with a cape of 3 mm thick lead protection which weighed about kg 40. They had about 60 seconds to climb 10 floors of stairs, get on place for shoveling the material to be eliminated in 60 seconds and then going back, always in a minute. A mission impossible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paolo A. Restelli self-portrait in Chernobyl</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;"><u><a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/04/chernobyl-vista-da-paolo-restelli-30.html">To read this article in italian</a></u></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932472486692886861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293486340469191773.post-79469092825139062652016-03-29T22:20:00.000+02:002016-06-26T10:10:07.833+02:00Enrico Cattaneo, the photographer of the artists<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Enrico Cattaneo was born in Milan, Italy, on September the 4th, 1933. He studied to become engineer at the "Politecnico di Milano", but during this period of time, in the '50s, he discovered, with some other students, a photographic laboratory inside the University, so they started to developing and printing their photos in this place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">After a while, these students passed more time taking photos and printing then studying mathematics or physics. They were Franco Vaccari, Toni Nicolini and Enrico Cattaneo: all of them became professional photographers. Franco Vaccari </span>(Modena June, 18th 1936) <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">was interested in poetry, cinema and arts, his father was already a professional photographer in Modena. Toni Nicolini (Milano 1935-2012) was interested in photo-reportage, he documented the farmers migration from the South of Italy to the more industrialized North, with the painter Ernesto Treccani. Enrico Cattaneo deals exclusivly with contemporary art, documenting the activities of the art galleries in Milan and shooting the artists' work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">COUM Performance - 1976 Galleria d'Arte Borgogna Milano - Enrico Cattaneo photo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">COUM Transmission was not just a group of Performance-art, it was an idea connected to the Living Theatre, a libertarian philosophy in which it was possible to explore dreams and obsessions, the potential of alternative and radical choices also in the artistic circuits and traditional medias like theater and music. It was a completely different thought (for example, an audience was not only made by university students or professionals, but also by workers and people without specific culture). The original nucleus consisted of Genesis P-Orridge, aka Neal Andrew Megson, who was born in Manchester in 1950, was an expert of Aleister Crowley, and one of the most prolific and extraordinary artists of the English underground. Cosey Fanni Tutti was a former porn actress and there was also a photographer, Peter Sleazy Christopherson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their performances orbited around issues like torture, war, psychological techniques of persuasion, strange murders (especially children and psychopaths), forensic pathology, venereology and life in the Nazi's concentration camps. They made more than one hundred and fifty artistic actions between 1969 and 1976, both in galleries and in alternative spaces, in which Genesis drunk blood and urine, used unsterilized needles, lied down on a bed of nails or was enchained and flogged by Cosey. The best-known performances: Prostitution, Ica (London, 19-26 October, 1976) and Gary Gilmore Memorial Society (with Monte Cazazza). After the experience with Coum Transmission, Genesis, Cosey and Peter founded the band Throbbing Gristle. (Source: Dictionary of the Show)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this selection of pictures of Enrico Cattaneo, we can see a few artistic events occured in Milan in the '70s. Between 1970 and 1974 Milan was the second artistic market after New York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Urs Luthi Performance, 1974 - Studio Marconi, Milano - Enrico Cattaneo photo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I've always been very interested in art, but at the beginning, I was doing other things as an amateur. I was taking pictures of landscapes, in those days. I was doing a kind of photography that was very on the edge of amateurism. I did not do the beautiful landscape, I was photographing landfills; in the hallway of my flat I still have some of them hung on the walls I took in 1957. Landfills for me had a social connotation and then, still as an amateur, I also dealt with the first strike of metalworkers, in 1961. Just below, the Breda workers paraded down here (next to EC flat TG note), it was a great strike against the Tambroni government. On that occasion, I was so unconscious, not having a great newspaper behind to look after these issues, I risked on my own. And the risk was great because then the police did not use his nightstick, but the rifle butt. I was working as a freelance for some secondary newspaper in Milan like "Le Ore", "Settimo Giorno", "Il Corriere Lombardo" and some other. I posted some pictures on: "La Notte", because then there were many newspapers of the afternoon that now are completely gone. This weekly called "Le Ore" became a tabloid newspaper, but then I was not there anymore, thankfully. I was very attentive to the new way of doing photography that was very different from the photographs made by the <i>paparazzi</i>, although in Milan there have never been the stars of the Roman night." <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/02/enrico-cattaneo-documentarista-milano.html">Enrico Cattaneo from an interview with TG</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ben Vautier "Action" 1971 Studio Sant'Andrea Milano - Enrico Cattaneo Photo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">9 EXERCISES TO EGO:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Change the name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. Telling the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. Committing suicide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">8. Doing all that is in our power to make happy another artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">9. Losing completely his memory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Note: Strangely, Tony Graffio is following unconsciously 8 of this 9 points.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"What do you want the critics know of me... Do you know where my embroidery come from? From my mother that made them do to kits for the Turin girls. And you know where she kept the models of those embroideries? Inside used envelopes for letter. Embroidery, envelopes, stamps... It all comes from there." Alighiero Boetti from: The adventurous life of A.B.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Milan was the capital of the world: everything happened here. Even in our field who later became photography. Milan was certainly the centre of Italy and perhaps of Europe. All the most important publishers were here, all the major industries were here, so you found yourself around an extremely lively and active world. From an editorial point of view, there were at least two newspapers: the "Europeo" and "Epoca" of Mondadori who had their teams of editorial salaried photographers that regularly sent their shots from all over the world, from Vietnam to Chile. They were very few and certainly our desire would have always been to become one of them." <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/02/enrico-cattaneo-documentarista-milano.html">Enrico Cattaneo from an interview with TG</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Otto Müehl, Sharon Tate murder(<em style="background-color: rgba(248, 248, 248, 0.6); line-height: 18px; text-indent: -28px;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">Der Tod der Sharon Tate)</span></em> - 1969 Galleria d'Arte "Milano" - Enrico Cattaneo photo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"In Milan there was everything, but it lacked the movie industry, although some attempts were being made also in this field. In Milan were shot very important films, such as: "Rocco and his brothers" by Luchino Visconti, "The night" by Antonioni, "Miracle in Milan" by De Sica and even Ermanno Olmi's filmography begins here with "The place" which is a typical Milanese history. These films spoke of us because I identified myself in a group which included the young escapees from the <i>Circolo Fotografico Milanese</i>." <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/02/enrico-cattaneo-documentarista-milano.html">Enrico Cattaneo from an interview with TG</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jean Tinguely, 1970, during a very famous performance in Duomo square, Milan - Enrico Cattaneo photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Every time Tinguely was here (in the flat where now lives EC. TG note) with Niki, then he organized the performance of this huge phallus that burst into Duomo square, creating endless controversy, Christo covered the statue of Vittorio Emanuele II in <i>Piazza del Duomo</i>, creating more controversy with the monarchists who asked and obtained to remove its cover from the statue, with big anger of Tinguely. To console the artists, the municipality of Milan allowed them to cover the Leonardo da Vinci statue in <i>Piazza della Scala</i>. But it was something else, Vittorio Emanuele II monument was very large. There are very spectacular Mulas' and Berengo Gardin's photographs of that performance. Unfortunately, I missed that event (the Christo's performance of the covering of the V.E. II statue. TG note) because I was busy elsewhere. I think that is a big hole in my archive." <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2016/02/enrico-cattaneo-documentarista-milano.html">Enrico Cattaneo from an interview with TG</a></span></div>
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(1974) On a project of Piero Manzoni dating around 1962, Germano
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Bell and Howell 240 was a 16mm film camera with automatic exposure controle and a spring motor loadable with a metal crank. The control barrel on the electric eye must be preset for the right film speed on the camera before filming. The outer scale of the Electric Eye shows the film speed from 10 to 50 Asa, while the camera frame rates varies from 8 to 48 frames per second. It is possible to operate the camera without using the automatic iris control and setting the iris manually. For making single frame exposures it is strongly reccomended the use of a cable release and of a tripod, to minimize camera motion. The camera uses two Mallory PX2 cells to feed the iris control automatism. As soon as the batteries begin to lose their energy, there will be a very noticeable decrease in speed at wich the iris control works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the '40s the best cameras and optical products were german, so Fototecnica, a company born in Turin after the war signed its cameras Herman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The model showed in this picture has a Galileian viewfinder, a 24X36 mm format, a Tecnophot central shutter with a charge lever on the lens. Exposure times from 1/25 sec. to 1/250 sec. plus B and T. It has a Koristka Tecnar 5 cm f 3,5 lens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The camera is strong and has rounded corners, in 1948 it had a reasonable price, but now it became quite a rare object. You could buy one from a collector for 200 - 250 euros, or even more. TG</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I asked to Gianni Limonta if I could visit him to know his story, I had not idea of what I could find in his shop, but even less I could imagine what he sold to a chinese buyer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I arrived in Bergamo, 50 km from Milan, I was not sure to be welcome by Gianni, because whe I talked to him at the telephone he was very mistrustful and brusque.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Despite this, w</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">hen I arrived in via Statuto, I saw Gianni Limonta outside the shop he opened 50 years ago and I understood we could become friends. I knew this man has sold his collection a few months ago and probably this for this reason I found him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Collectors, contrary to what you might think, sometimes do not even know each other, <a href="http://ortodossiafotografica.blogspot.it/2014/10/gli-sguardi-che-attraversano-il-tempo.html">Gabriele Chiesa</a> and Paolo Gosio, two of the biggest collectors of daguerrotypes in the world had the same passion for many decades didn't know to live in the same quarter of Brescia. After they knew each other started to collaborate at the same collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Limonta started to collect photo cameras when he was only 21 y.o. His brother in law made him a present and after a 1915 folding camera Gianni searched for older photo cameras. When his clients knew about this passion they started to bring to sell their old cameras to Gianni. Most of the time they had in exchange just a couple of film rolls because they didn't imagine the value of their pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Gianni Limonta (71 y.o.) with the crates containing his photographic collection ready to take the flight to Shanghai where will be open the largest and most important museum in the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, to start a collection you have to be a millionaire, in the Internet era everybody is well informed about prices and evaluetion of every item, while in the golden age of photographic collectibles there were only books and auctions to stay updated on cameras and sales. Before many people was inexperienced and not even imagined what was in its hands</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gianni Limota was born in an humble family, but it seems that everything went well in his life, thanks to a particularly combative and enterprising character. He made his way in the world, he is likeable, successful in his profession and with women. Now he lives in a XVI century house that had become too chaotic for the fact that there were cameras of great value everywhere, even in the garage and in the henhouse (Obviously, not thrown there, but preserved and protected with the utmost care. I promised not to reveal this detail, but I could not resist to tell you this).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the shop window I saw a great deal of interesting material, there are a pair of </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wooden</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> stereoscopic cameras of the end of '800, all kinds of Rolleiflex and many other cameras. Inside there is a big acid green 16mm film projector made in the '50 by Ducati, yes it's the same Ducati so famous for the sport motorbikes that 60 years ago produced photo cameras, radios and later in the '70 also marine engines. In another cabinet I saw a Luckyflex, a rare 24X36 twin lens reflex camera made in Milano in 1947.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gianni Limonta sold 3000 photo cameras and other rarity for a total of 8 tons of goods, but he still owns 1000 photo cameras.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Asahi Pentax Spotmatic, introduced in the 1964, the year of the Olympic Games of Tokyo, was a revolutonary SRL 35mm and the camera-icon of the '60s. The other icon of those days were the Beatles. The Spotmatic was as popular as the Beatles, indeed the Beatles took their photos with the Spotmatic and the Spotmatics took the pictures of the Beatles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Asahi Pentax was the first optical and photographic producer to solve the problem to calculate the exposure through the lens, also if not yet wide open. This is why there is a black lever on the left of the camera that turns it on the light-meter while close the f-stop to mesure the light in a stopped down modality. We have to thank this camera if the SRL found their diffusion between the professionals and the photography enthousiats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fifty years ago the make of the rising sun (Asahi) was so popular that it was able to sell more Spotmatic than all the SLR cameras produced by Nikon, Canon and Minolta together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Spotmatic was a very desired camera, but at the same time was quite affordable for many people because it had a right price. It was very reliable, it was very well designed and it was among the smallest SLR 35mm on the market. Later on, I will tell you other interesting informations I retrieved from an old italian photographic magazine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Asahi Pentax Spotmatic II, made in 1971, is not so different from its predecessor. The shape, the shutter, the controls and everything is the same of the SP, exept for the addition of the </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">flash</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> shoe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is a shoot enterely dedicated to the fabolous '60. Sara is a fashion designer who produces hats, headgear, caps and bonnets with fabrics typical of the '60; she also loves dressing any kind of clothes of those years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The model was photographed in externals and illuminated by the diffused light of a cloudy day. I used a Fujicolor 200 exposed at 1/60 sec. f 4. The camera mounted the SMC Takumar 50mm f 1:1,4, an extraordinary lens, very apreciated, still now. This 50mm, like all the other Takumar lenses, has nothing to envy to the Zeiss optics of that period. On the contrary, probably some Zeiss lenses could not be as well designed like the SMC Takumar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The camera, like nearly all the cameras produced in this period, is strong and well made, personally I don't like the screw coupling because it takes (You need t use 2 hands to change the lens) more time to mount a M42 lens than a bayonet lens. The possibility to mount any M42 lens, for me is not a real advantage because usually this is an economic option. Among the screw mount lenses I consider interesting only the SMC Takumar and the Super Takumar, but also in these series it's very difficult to find a fast lens. For me, there are only two reasons to chose the SRL 35mm instead of a larger format camera: portability and fast lenses. If there are not fast lenses in a 35mm camera set, it has not much sense to use that camera make. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because of this when I take pictures with my SP II I nearly always mount on it the 50mm f 1,4. Another reason to use the 50mm f 1,4 is the low brightness of the viefinder. The camera viewfinder is not really so bad, but probably the fameous Super Multi Coating treatment never involved the pentaprism or any other optical part having to do with the vision of the image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm glad of the photo I got with this camera. In the picture of Sara it is impossible to evaluate the bokeh because the flowers are not real, but designed on a background wall. If you wish to see other pictures taken with the SMC Takumar it's possible to see them on my other blog: <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2014/02/tendenzialmente-punk.html">Frammenti di Cultura</a> where I used the Takumar lenses on the Pentax K-01. Anyway, believe me, the image resulting from a shoot with the SMC Takumar is very good; not so sharp as a modern lens, but very personal and recognisable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To give a more precise idea of the value and of the goodness of the project of the Spotmatic I thought to summarise the results of some scientific tests commissioned by <i>Fotografare </i>to the Cinematography Laboratory of the <i>Politecnico di Torino</i> in 1969.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here, an ingeneer studied especially the working of the shutter and its effects on vibrations and noise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are variables that influence the behavior of mechanical shutters, their normal running speed slows down with the decreasing of the temperature, but a photograph taken in winter can also have different effects on film speed and other factors. The same thing could occur to the cells of light-meters that could have a different reading also for other variables. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Asahi Pentax Spotmatic II used with a regular time of 1/1000 sec. at 20 °C has a very constant and regular shutter that produces well exposed images of the strobe flashes (used to check the shutter) in the various areas of the frame. The difference in exposure is quite low and the shutter can be considered good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At -20°C the duration of the exposure time decreases producing slightly underexposures. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With a time of 1/500 sec. the shutter can be considered good at 20 °C , while at -20°C the difference of the time of exposure could be considered acceptable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Compared to the cameras of its time the Spotmatic shutter is slighty better of the average, turning out even better than Leica M4 and Nikon F shutters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most of the drawbacks to low temperatures is caused by the hardening of the tissue curtains and by the viscosity of the lubricants. One way to solve this problem, a time, was to eliminate the lubrication of the gears, which shortened the life of the cameras, but reduced exposure errors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are situations such as wildlife in nature or shows and concerts in theaters where shutter noise can create hassles. The focal plane shutters are noisier than the central ones, but also among curtains shutters some are less noiser than others. The Polytechnic of Turin recorded the sound of a few cameras with a microphone to study them. Every single camera was handheld to avoid other sources of extraneous noise (such as scrolling of cable realise or vibrations) during the shooting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At a time of 1/1000 sec. the resulting noise level is 90 dB; at 1/30 sec., 88 dB; at 1/4 sec. 87dB. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oscillograms (diagrams of oscillations) are forked and show that there are two noises at the height of the shooting moment: at first you hear the noise of the tilting mirror and immdiately after there is the noise produced by the shutter curtains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Only the metal elements of the Copal Square mounted on the Konika Autoreflex T and FT; on the <a href="http://ortodossiafotografica.blogspot.it/2015/05/one-take-one-frame-one-camera-nikkormat.html">Nikkormat FTN</a> (and in other SRL) are noisier than the Spotmatic with 92 dB; 91dB and 89 dB. Apart from the noise, the Copal Square shutters have vertical scrolling elements so robust and reliable that even after 50 years they can manage to keep shutter speeds precise enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you press the shutter button you set in motion a series of mechanisms formed by springs levers and gears of various types which result in forces that cause inevitable jolts and vibrations of the camera, regardless of the firmness of the operator's hand. It is not easy to measure the vibrations induced by the shutter and the mirror of a SLR camera, but thanks to the use of a accelerometric head (more or less the same concept of a pick-up used on a record player) connected to a preamplifier, in turn connected to an amplifier from which then get the dates of the oscillation amplitudes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I bought this model of camera around 15 years ago, because I liked it, because it was and it is a cult camera and because it was a bargain. I didn't use it very much, but I had not even to do any service on it, i just cleaned it after I bought it, that's all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For me, the only reason to take photos with this camera is to make a vintage shoot (like I did) with very good lenses like the SMC Takumar. You could objet that it's possible to muont a SMC Takumar on many cameras, also on a Praktica, for example, but I would tell you that a SP II is much better than a <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2015/10/una-fotocamera-uno-scatto-unimmagine.html">Praktica MTL 5</a>, including the viewfinder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last time I took the SP II in my hands to use it I noticed a strange ennoying line on the viefinder. While the prevoius day everything was fine, suddenly and without explainations I got this problem. It looks this could be a commun bother to many old pentaprisms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 1969, the Asahi Pentax Spotmatic in Italy costed 115000 Lire, an average salary of a worker. It means that today it would cost around 1000 euros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are able to find a SP in good condition and a SMC Takumar 50 f 1,4, you enjoy taking pictures with film cameras and you are not frightened by the special glass slightly radioactive of some Takumar buy them. Their prices are always lower of their value. You can find a SP II for around 50 euros. Tony Graffio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I took this camera in my hands I had no idea how long it had been unused; I loaded the spring and tried to make it work, but without success. I thought the film transport mechanism was blocked, but it was sufficient to give a slight start, with a screwdriver, to the shaft of the motor that moves the shutter (through a small hole inside the film chassis) and the energy of the loaded spring has managed to make turn the shutter again and move the dragging claws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A big charging lever and a big start button contrast to a small viewfinder (with focal lenght adjusting system) and an interchangeble </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kodak Cine Ektar 25mm f: 1,9 with small adjustment rings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Armando Marrocco, 76 y.o. Artist
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The artist's vision is
always something important, something that stands out from the common
way of seeing. Many photographers and aspiring artists today are
looking for how to realize the world's largest photography, the
largest camera in the world, the largest ambrotype, or cyanotype and,
therefore, the larger contact print, in short, everyone is trying, in
some way to emerge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When you can not be
recognized as the best in the world, or the greatest expert, or the
best artist, photographer, printer, or what you want, we resort to
some "big" action that affects the public, or at least
those used to browse regularly the Guinness World Records Almanac to
see if they may be able to find themselves on it, or not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fortunately, a large
photograph doesn't make a great photographer, as even a great work
doesn't produce a great artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The artist is the one who
has a history, who knows the languages to express his ideas and has
something to share with the people, through his skill in a practical
or technical field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He is capable of arousing
the true feelings and to interest the public into what he has to say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Armando Marrocco is a
complete artist who has competence in various fields of art ranging
from sculpture to the act of performing body art. When I told him
that I am a photography enthusiast, I saw his eyes light up and I saw
him quickly get out by his office and returning in a couple of minutes
with a seemingly blank canvas under his arm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Photographers are
no longer used to do experimentation and they do not fully exploit the medium they
use. Look what I did 40 years ago!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This phrase has intrigued
me, evidently he was sure he could make a strong impression on me.
After a first look at his self-portrait, I found only a small writing
at the bottom of the picture that seemed to be the title of the work:
"Self-Portrait".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There and then, I think
maybe the author felt in some existential crisis, when he was
creating such a framework, or maybe he wanted to express a kind of
emptiness, I do not know, I look at the picture, but frankly I do not
find much that's great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Self-portrait</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's Armando who directs
my gaze toward the center of the canvas and helps me to locate a
darkest point, I'm going to guess something when Armando Marrocco
hands me a magnifying glass, and I see a face with a mustache which I
imagine could be his face 40 years before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am faced with a "fresh"
and genuine self-portrait that actually surprised me and put me in a
good mood because it made me understand what it means to search, to
try, making mistakes and to be able to realize an idea with the
language of photography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the same time, this
gave me the opportunity to learn more about an artist, thanks to the
fact of having been able to see him through his own eyes, as he saw
himself. Tony Graffio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The little face with a mustache on the canvas</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As Armando Marrocco
describes his self-portrait</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"I have done this on
a canvas pre-emulsified; I wanted to realize my self-portrait, but I
had to throw out several of these paintings because I used to expose
my face within the texture of the canvas and then you could not tell who was who, or
not it was this character, because the image was deformed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You know well that to
achieve this photograph is not easy. You must shield very well the
enlarger to evoid blades of stray light. I had several scraps, then
slowly, slowly I was able to get the result that I set myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition to the
maximum extension of the bellows of the enlarger, I had to resort to the use of many
extension rings to make result the image of the size of a dot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I asked for the maximum
that I could have to the photographic medium."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Size of the negative used
for printing: 24X36 mm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Canvas Size: 80X80 cm,
year of production: 1974/1975, present value: 15,000 euro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This self-portrait has
been realized also on larger canvas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The same photograph of the self-portrait took from the cover of the Calendar Marrocco, a book of artist, he published in 1975, with texts by Toti Carpentieri and presentation of Pierre Restany</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To read the same story in <a href="http://graffitiamilano.blogspot.it/2015/11/lautoritratto-dartista-di-armando.html">italian language</a></span></div>
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