| | I'm an Italian editorial photographer, recently arrived to the fabulous
Contax G system. My principal works come from editorial projects, both for texts
and photography (I publish one or two books or booklets per year); my very
typical fields are archaeology and environment, and you can see something more
about me and my works at my site (URL below).
They're a studio about the possibility of photography as a true language,
exploring its relation with linguistic rules, particularly with the rhetoric. I
think that the "limitations" of the G system in comparison with an SLR
is a benefit in this field, as it requires a more careful attention to subjects
won't as easily fit in our zooms.
Toti Calò
tical@libero.it
http://web.tiscalinet.it/ephoto
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Airport in bloom
You see the field, you see the sign... it is an airport!
Can you imagine an aeroplane landing on the flowers? It could be nice!
Here we have two "terms" linked by a syntagmatic bond. It
is a metonymy. (Pay attention, the syntagmatic bond isn't between the word
"sign" and the word "field", but between their images, calling them "terms" we've used a metaphor instead :-)
Technicals: camera Contax G1 - lens Biogon 28 f 16 -
film Fujichrome Velvia |
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Psychedelic breakfast
The geometrical composition here emphasizes the surreal
atmosphere. It is a symmetry.
Technicals: lens Biogon 28 f 16 - film Fujichrome Velvia |
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Vanity
The girl symbolizes the beauty (the motion symbolizes
its transience), the sign symbolizes the consumer society (note that the
word "coin" in Italian has no meaning, but, by chance, the
symbol is safe: it is a brand of fashion). It is a parallelism. (Of course
I hadn't the faintest idea about all this while I was taking this picture... I've understood it later :-)
Technicals: camera Contax G1 - lens Planar 45 f 2,8 -
film Fujichrome Velvia |
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Censure
It seems that the Michelangelo's David was demurely
covered by a wall, and not that a false David's head is posed on a bale of
bricks, as it is. Here our logic transfers the category "brick"
to the category "wall", the one for the whole, and the
perspective makes the rest. It is a synecdoche.
Technicals: camera Contax G1 - lens Planar 45 f 16 -
film Fujichrome Velvia |
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The sea's and the sun's daughters
The sea is there (you can see it), the sun is there too
(you can see its light). These two beautiful "girls" are dressed
one in the sun's colours, and the other in the sea's ones. It is a
metaphor "in presentia".
Technicals: camera Contax G1 - lens Sonnar 90 f 16 -
film Fujichrome Velvia |
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Vertical traffic sign
The sign isn't there for the balloon. The balloon isn't
there for the sign. In the photograph it seems so. It is a paradox.
Technicals: camera Contax G1 - lens Sonnar 90 f 22 -
film Fujichrome Velvia |
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