An ambitious (and heavyweight) series of 500 images of ugly and beautiful objects and lives by Italian artist and photographer Jacopo Benassi.
"The Ecology of Images" is the first, ambitious, intense publishing project from communication agency 1861 United: 445 images with the unmistakable signature of artist and photographer Jacopo Benassi from La Spezia.
Ecological images: not retouched, not post-produced, not glossy, not manipulated, not artificial; capturing us with the pure enchantment of naked truth.
A surprising machine-gun shot of objects and lives, stratified on top of each other.
Traces and faces: ruddy, thin, modern, uneven, lofty, modest, aged, charming, brash, stupefied, spoiled, childish, generous, asthmatic, serene, marginal. Really beautiful, really ugly. Jacopo Benassi, according to writer Maurizio Maggiani, "receives orders from the sky, where the Archive of Human Matter is being kept. His work is the work of the seagull, of the golden dung fly, of the golden scarab."
A work which cleans us up from the surface crust, "so we can look at each other knowing we will be seen".
A big, hefty, wide-shouldered book, a heavyweight, a book which exists.
Stamp numbered edition.
Jacopo Benassi (born 1970, lives and works in La Spezia, Italy) is one of the most prolific and talented Italian photographers. His work has the camera at its centre but he touches on languages such as performance, video, curating, and sound. He has collaborated for many years with the director Paolo Sorrentino, and has developped many projects with
Federico Pepe. He has worked with some of the most legendary international musicians of the international punk and post-punk scene. During his career he has worked, among the others, for
Rolling Stone,
Purple Magazine,
GQ,
Vice,
Wired,
ICON Panorama,
Riders, just to name a few.
Edited by 1861 United.
Texts by Carlo Antonelli and Maurizio Maggiani.
published in 2008
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
24,5 x 30 (hardcover, cloth binding)
448 pages (420 color & b/w ill., ribbon)
ISBN : 978-2-84066-267-9
EAN : 9782840662679
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