My debts of gratitude with:
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
Children at a puppet show when Saint George kills the dragon, Paris, 1963.
- Gilbert e Frances Chesterton
“The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder; so that a man sitting in a chair might suddenly understand that he was actually alive, and be happy.”
“Tollers, there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.”
C.S. Lewis to J.R.R. Tolkien.
“A good photograph is a photograph that shows something no one has seen before.”
“Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up.”
At the base of everything else:
- Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
“Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes.”
- Orthodoxy di Gilbert Chesterton
“We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name. This man walks about the streets and can see and appreciate everything; only he cannot remember who he is. Well, every man is that man in the story. We have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.”
- A occhi aperti di Mario Calabresi
“Se la gente è sommersa fino al collo devi essere dentro con loro, non c’è separazione, non puoi stare sulla sponda a guardare: devi diventare parte della storia e abbracciarla fino in fondo”, Steve McCurry
- Visti&Scritti di Ferdinando Scianna
“Una volta ho letto una frase di Marcel Jouhandeau, diceva che se si fossero persi, per chi sa quale nuovo, apocalittico incendio di una universale biblioteca di Alessandria, tutti i romanzi mai scritti, basterebbe comprare un biglietto della metropolitana e guardare in faccia i passeggeri. A partire da quei volti si sarebbe potuto ricominciare a scrivere e leggere tutta la storia della letteratura”.
“It is the fusion of ethics and aesthetics which charms me, the armony I attempted to reproduce in my photographs. To show what is just is wonderful as well.”
