'68 Altrove. Giaccone, Fausto: Fotografie

48 Seiten, überw. Abb. Tadelloses Exemplar. / Perfect copy. - Language: Italian and english. / „Much has been said and written about the year 1968, especially every ten years, like clockwork, we often get the impression that we are looking at its transformation, by those who strike a rhetorical key and turn it into a myth, but also by those who, on the contrary, denigrate it with suspicious animosity. Like all meaningful moments that changed, if not the world, then at least our way of observing, interpreting and living it, the year 1968 has become the source of an ongoing dispute, which seems to forget the uniqueness of a period characterized by the vital role of collective action, by the importance of music that plays like a soundtrack to the events, by the role of photographic and cinematographic images, which are able to convey the feelings of an entire generation. The era of activist reportage marks a turning-point in Italy, even compared to the recent past, because so-called Neorealist photography had with a few exceptions been poetic, lyrical, and often social, but not so directly political. The camera became a pointed weapon, to be used in the manner of the great foreign reporters: Eugene Smith, who recounted the lives of simple people, Dorothea Lange, who turned the stories of Steinbeck's novels into images, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, who knew how to capture moments in time and transform them into emotions. So much was changing, the world seemed to be shrinking because travel was becoming easier and more economical if one was willing to use army surplus clothes, jeans, sleeping bags, hitch-hiking. At the same time the world's borders seemed to be expanding, because there wasn't one place on earth untouched by ferment, discussions, revolutions. The first of many generations that wasn't called up to fight a war discovered a desire to be together, a curiosity for the world, and even a bitter after-taste of anger. Fausto Giaccone recaptures the atmosphere of those years, in a far-reaching way that is devoid of any rhetorical slippage [ ] (Foreword) / fotografie-photos: Fausto Giaccone -- introduzione-introduction -- Roberto Mutti -- art director Federico Mininni editor Patrizia Giovannetti translation -- Francesca Manzetti -- si ringrazia - thanks to Silvana Abbrescia-Rath -- Le fotografie della mostra sono state stampate analogicamente da Claudio Bassi The photographs of the exibition have been printed by Claudio Bassi Laboratorio Fotogramma 24, via Gaspare Spontini 24, Roma stampato da - printed by Grafica Malvisi via Cardano 13, Fidenza -- finito di stampare il 30 settembre 2008. Sprache: Italienisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550