Notes from the road. A project.

[siracusa]

It is difficult to add anything to this thread that hasn't already been commented - the crisp exposure, the composition, the processing and tones... These and other points have already been made very eloquently. I do want to comment, though, even if to repeat something that has already been commented, in that what's perhaps most fascinating for me is seeing you apply your distinctive eye and aesthetic sensibility to a very different context and surroundings. It works, well - these are very clever images. Sometimes I think they flirt with an influence but never become mimetic or lose the distinctiveness of your own vision. Your image no 10, for example, reminded me a little (ever so slightly) of a Giacomelli shot I remember seeing, not a comparison I would normally be inclined to draw with your work, but it dispelled the comparison as soon as it evoked a slight hint of it. Lovely work, and very clever.

 

[luiman]

Thank you David for your kind words and very encouraging feedback.
It is a really different context, an unexplored territory for myself. At beginning I doubted... Perhaps this project started thanks to a set of rules that I have given.
You are right about the influence(s). Each photo we shoot perhaps comes from an (less or more aware) influence. When I started the project I had just finished reading "Errances" by Raymond Depardon. Now I am interested in landscape photography in the late XIX century, particularly in France and USA.
In regard to Giacomelli, and its way to look the landscape, well, he is among my favorite photographers of all times 🙂

 

[luiman]

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[siracusa]

Another strong, excellently composed image, Luigi. I'm struck by these lines and structures which are so inescapable in the landscape you are travelling through, yet here and in other images you are creating in this thread, they seem so feeble and provisional. When I first looked at this image I thought, "that is harsh land"; having looked more closely I think of it as strong rather than harsh. It has a kind of dignity in spite of the mining and other indignities imposed on it.

 

[luiman]

Thank you David. Your interesting words allow me to do other reflections, as always. Yes, it is a strong ground; fertile but also harsh with its inhabitants.

 

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[konicaman]

Some very strong landscapes here - again 🙂
61 seems a bit lonely - are you planning on further detail images? Might be an interesting combo...

 

[siracusa]

I posted a while back that there was something going on in one of your images that reminded me a little of Giacomelli, but I couldn't understand why. I think I am beginning to see what it was. Behind his high contrast printing his images of the land there was that strong sense of intimacy with the land he photographed. Even as you position yourself as a traveller passing through this landscape, you seem (I think) to present it very intimately. I am finding it hard to put into words what I mean so I had better stop here, but this is fascinating work.

 

[luiman]

Thank you Konicaman for your interesting remark about the presence of details in this project: I hesitate to shoot details because I'm a bit an addict. 🙂
But I found interesting things on the roads, I will do it.

 

[luiman]

Thank you David. If I understand correctly your thought, it's a great feedback for me because I work here from the edges of the road (in real and metaphorical sense). I always loved the Giacomelli's work on the landscape. Its photos so hard and full of tension show its roots in its land (region of Senigallia, Marche).

 

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[Paulbe]

Luigi--I love 68 and 69--great shots! Thanks for showing the rail lines---wish the US would do the same...
Paul