Enrico Gusella. On photography and beyond

"On photography and beyond" is the title of the book by Henry Gusella, published by Publisher Allemandi inserted in the series "The Witnesses of Art". A fascinating and engaging journey into the photographic image, the story and its protagonists: the photographers. Enrico Gusella - arts critic and historian, curator and, among other things, the creator of the National Centre of Photography of the City of Padua - elaborates in this evocative volume acute reading of the lives and worlds of photographers, from the middle 'of the nineteenth century to the present day, from Nadar to Roni Horn, crossing different genres of photography and investing the different disciplines of the arts including literature and poetry. The extensive author's analysis is divided into 8 chapters, each of which includes a series of essays in edicati internationally renowned photographers. The book opens with an interview with Mimmo Jodice and a special way of perceiving the author Chico 's hometown, Naples. Continues with a section called the first great landscapes, which includes among the many texts devoted to the great photographers such as Gabriele Basilico Italian Elio Ciol, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Vittorio Storaro, but also reflections on landscape photography that touch some places through their greatest performers: so 'and' Paris by Robert Doisneau, the streets of jazz by Pino Ninfa, Rome-Pompeii by Gianni Berengo Gardin and Aurelio Amendola, or Walter Niedermayr, Between presence and absence. Presentation of the book, July 25 at 7 pm.

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