La imagen como fábrica

In our modern digital age, the polaroid is already becoming a relic of the past. However, the fleeting moment and the uniqueness of it, lend the polaroid a quality beyond its mere merit as a "good" or "bad" photograph. Like a painting, a polaroid becomes an irreplaceable treasure and object of desire, as only one person may own the original. Perfectly lit and composed, these polaroids are Bitesnich's images in miniature, the painterly sketches for later works of art. Though as with most artists, the sketches ultimately become artworks in themselves. AUTHOR Andreas H. Bitesnich started his...

A raíz de un encargo de la revistaFortune, James Agee y Walker Evans convivie- ron durante los meses de julio y agosto de 1936 con tres familias de aparceros del sur de Estados Unidos para realizar un reportaje periodístico sobre las condi- ciones de vida de los arrendatarios de algodón. Ese estudio resultó un verdadero documento sociológico, pero que, tanto por su descripción austera como por sus fotografías, fue rechazado por la revista. Así, James Agee decidió convertir el re- sultado de esta perturbadora experiencia en uno de los libros que acabó siendo de los más originales y...

These modern and unconventional photographs portray an Italy that is very different from the one most people are accustomed to seeing on postcards. In this book, Italy and its heritage of nature, history, culture and humanity are presented from a unique vantage point — the sky — with pictures taken by two of today's most respected specialized photographers.