Surrealism, photography and digital art The story behind the name Meeting Benches is fascinating and full of meaning. Imagine a place, a park or a square, where the benches act as a meeting point for people. These benches become silent witnesses of chance encounters, deep conversations, love stories and moments of reflection. Meeting Benches is a tribute to these special …
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When a photo fully represents a moment The art of photography is a way of expressing one’s vision of the world and communicating it to others through images. There are people who have left memorable phrases about that kind of passion. For Diane Arbus, photography is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing cookies. Henri Cartier-Bresson believed …
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Photographic atmospheres, between mannerism and symbolism In her photographic works you find flesh and blood that dance creatively, on the verge of collapse. The artist, human rights activist and traveler, Ilaria Facci https://it.ilariafacciart.com/ was born in Rome in 1982. After suffering from retinoblastoma and losing her left eye, she moved to Buenos Aires with my mother and sister. In 2000 …
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The oldest company in the world operating in the field of photography Thanks to its iconographic heritage, in memory of your visit to Florence, the Fratelli Alinari https://www.alinari.it/it/prodotti offers a wide range of products for sale. We have chosen a 55-euro photographic print, a 20-euro art print and a 20.50-euro book (At the origins of photography / A Tuscan itinerary, …
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When photographing it creates emotional turmoil. With his priceless iconographic heritage, he also donated 3,000 prints, thousands of negatives, 1,600 audio cassettes, 25,000 vinyl records and 8,000 books. When he was 14, the New York Times published his first photo shoot. He was born in the West of the United States, in Wichita (Kansas), in 1918. Encouraged by his mother, …
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The camera, an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. In 1940, an image was exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. At the time, DOROTHEA LANGE was working as a photographer for a Depression-era government agency. She was born in Hoboken (New Jersey, U.S), into a May day, 1895, becoming American documentary …
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Suggestive places & real rock ‘n’ roll. This is our “journey of authorship” in Great Britain, the photographic itinerary where a poet and a painter will accompany us to know the places that have marked their path of creative growth. As always, even the suggestion of overnight stay in some hotel (or in a typical restaurant) will improve the quality …
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