Rodney Smith : fotografia tra reale e surreale : photography between real and surreal

Morin, Anne (EDT)/ Smith, Rodney

• ページ数 167 p.／サイズ 29 cm
• 言語 ITA,ENG
• 商品コード 9788836658879
• DDC分類 779

基本説明

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo Roverella, Rovigo, Italy, October 4, 2025-February 1, 2026.

Full Description

The work of Rodney Smith (1947-2016) is above all an invitation to insinuate oneself into a world suspended between illusion and reality. Far from the modern conventions of documentary photography or realism, Smith has created a unique language on the boundary between these two worlds.

Each of his sublime, supreme images exerts a real fascination over the viewer, for they are the site of polarity and duality, of the utterance and its contradiction, of the place and its reverse.

Rodney Smith is not content merely to document the world; he transforms it and magnifies it, and only photography is capable of delivering, in a flash, his strange visions, his kind of visual impulses, as stunning and explosive as if they were about to break the sound barrier.

Text in English and Italian.

Contents

14 Il paradosso di Rodney Smith
17 The Paradox of Rodney Smith
Leslie Smolan
18 Visioni cinematografiche
21 Cinematic Visions
Susan Bright
36 L'architettura dell'aria
39 The Architecture of Air
Anne Morin
51 Fotografia tra reale e surreale
Photography between real and surreal
52 La divina proporzione
The Divine Proportion
68 Gravità
Gravity
82 Spazi eterei
Ethereal Spaces
96 Attraverso lo specchio
Through the Looking-Glass
110 Il tempo e la permanenza
Time and Permanence
124 Luce
Light
138 Passaggi
Passages
153 Apparati
Appendix
154 Opere in mostra
Exhibition checklist
162 Cronologia
163 Chronology
167 Gli autori
Contributors