Luca Campigotto
American Elegy
- Seventy colour photographs imbued with clarity and nostalgia evoke the majestic vastness and the mysterious silence of the American landscape, from the urban periphery to the wild frontier
- Text in English and Italian
The canyons and deserts of the vast natural landscapes of the American West (Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Death Valley, Canyonlands, Canyon de Chelly, etc.) and the coal-mining ghost towns of California and Wyoming. A town in Montana whose brick architecture is reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s paintings. Liquor stores, Idaho’s large auto cemeteries, the Bronx and the other industrial fringes of New York City. The sense of distance and the solitude of the wild frontier and the urban periphery alternate between dazzling daytime lights and mysterious nocturnes.
This lush book presents 70 colour photographs imbued with clarity and nostalgia, accompanied by short poetic notes as travel counterpoints. A journey on the thread of personal memories which in turn echo literary and cinematographic works. An evocation in images and words of some American topoi, above all the timeless myth of “on the road” travelling.
The afterword by Mauro Pala, professor of comparative literature, explores the ancient relationship that binds American literature to great landscape photography.
Text in English and Italian.
- Publisher
- Silvana
- ISBN
- 9788836648573
- Published
- 17th Jun 2021
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Germany, Eastern Europe, & Austria. Arab States non-exclusive
- Size
- 305 mm x 250 mm
- Pages
- 160 Pages
- Illustrations
- 100 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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