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Parisian life in streets and cafés has been freely interpreted by a few photographers and writers who live and work in the capital city.

A special issue of PRIVATE dedicated to MAGNUM Photos Agency.

All of the photos which compose this number of ‘Private’ represent denial or an attempt at denial of fashion. […] Here we find ourselves already in ambiguous territory where the body and whatever covers it is not just commercial merchandise, or at least not entirely.

Dedicated to contemporary photography in China.

New York, with its dreamy fragments of daily life and shards of reality, through the eye of one who arrives and explores a city and the reaction of the city itself.

Photographic diaries and autobiographical memories, revealing themselves as attempts to confer upon the person a form of identity, capable of going beyond actual experiences.

See a preview: A “voyage of images and writing” in the medium-sized city of Saint-Denis, in the northern outskirts of Paris. A multiethnic and multicultural city, where ninety thousand residents of seventy different nationalities live.

The new cultural tendencies of the nineties in a London recounted in the images of twenty-four young authors.

The observation of self and of one’s own being as a first step towards the observation of the world and the understanding of it. The transit, as a form of concrete existence of society and of individuals which allows (or forces) the human species to adapt to its own new…

Possible scenes and stories from one particular day in the future, “Friday 13 September 2019”, in an ancient middle-sized Italian city, Bologna. Bologna, venerdì 13 settembre 2019. San Maurilio. L’almanacco del giorno dopo Il sole sorge alle ore 4.45. La mattina sarà fresca, velata da nebbia fuori stagione, ma col…

A meeting with the street, the physical and mental place of all those whom, being travellers hope to not become imprisoned.

Le foto pubblicate in questo numero di PRIVATE, fanno parte di alcuni dei più significativi lavori in “bianco e nero” eseguiti da autori giovanissimi e presentati agli organizzatori del Premio Fotografico Mario Ziliani. Un’altra giornata di uno “Scrutatore” Le fotografie sono tutte lì, su un lungo tavolo, e si sente…

A voyage in the places of memory. Visions, memories, experiences of life in the Pavese OltrePo between the Fifties and Sixties. A tale told in images, with dialactic poetry.

Photography and cinema are the most famous couple in the visual arts of the 1900’s, and also the most intriguing, when examined closely, and as such, nicely ignored by the two distinct theoretical fields.

Queste foto che ritraggono altri corpi, altri volti, altri scenari, innescano (così mi sembra) una sensazione di appartenenza, di coinvolgimento, di riconoscimento con la propria storia, con la propria memoria; è la stessa suggestione malinconica (scevra però di melassa e di sentimentalismo) che coglie chiunque si accinga a sfogliare, con…

“Pare che la disubbidienza sia un difetto genetico”. Ci colpisce, ed emerge lapidaria,questa frase in uno scritto intelligentemente critico di Giorgio Antonucci (Critica al giudizio psichiatrico, Roma, Sensibili Alle Foglie, 1993). A partire da questa sollecitazione polemica, questo numero di PRIVATE vuole dare espressione al disagio. […] Social themes with…

The desire to discover the fantasy of the voyage.

Comparison of different sensitivities marked by the diversity of territory of origin: Lombardia and Sicilia.

Il bianco e nero rimane però il grande amore di tutti i fotografi: nasconde i difetti, si pone fuori dal tempo, cancella ogni volgarità, crea un’aura di Mistero…