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€ 250 - 350
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€ 180
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Vintage bromoil print
cm 48,5 x 38,7 (cm 30 x 23 picture) | 19.1 x 15.2 in. (11.8 x 9 in. picture)
Titled and signed in pencil on the recto margin
Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva (Coassolo 1882 – Turin 1962), a highly respected judge who ended his career as President of the Court of Appeal, was a passionate photographer and a member of the so-called ‘Piedmont School of Artistic Photography’ alongside Achille Bologna, Stefano Bricarelli, Carlo Baravalle and Italo Bertoglio. His cultural outlook was that of pictorialism, within which he carved out a leading role. His photographs are characterised by his mastery of printing techniques, particularly the bromide transfer process, which required considerable manual skill and a willingness to experiment. All this led to an intense exhibition schedule and a prominent presence in publications of the time, such as the prestigious annual ‘Luci e ombre’.
The photograph taken in that mountainous setting, which was particularly congenial to Peretti Griva, is rather classical. Here, one observes a process of the image breaking down within an almost Arcadian landscape characterised by a serene atmosphere, as evidenced by the close-up of the animal looking into the camera, whilst in the background the Matterhorn dominates austerely, surrounded by clouds, in all its grandeur. In Venice, like many others, the Piedmontese photographer challenged himself in the search for images that were neither predictable nor, worse still, rhetorical. It must be said that in the 1930s the city was not yet the focus of photographic imagery (for instance, prior to Fulvio Roiter’s *Venise à fleur d’eau* in 1954, there were no photographic books on the city), but the fact remains that this vertical composition, in which the gondolas stand out against the backdrop of the Church of the Salute, possesses a remarkable sense of composure.
cm 48,5 x 38,7 (cm 30 x 23 picture) | 19.1 x 15.2 in. (11.8 x 9 in. picture)
Titled and signed in pencil on the recto margin
Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva (Coassolo 1882 – Turin 1962), a highly respected judge who ended his career as President of the Court of Appeal, was a passionate photographer and a member of the so-called ‘Piedmont School of Artistic Photography’ alongside Achille Bologna, Stefano Bricarelli, Carlo Baravalle and Italo Bertoglio. His cultural outlook was that of pictorialism, within which he carved out a leading role. His photographs are characterised by his mastery of printing techniques, particularly the bromide transfer process, which required considerable manual skill and a willingness to experiment. All this led to an intense exhibition schedule and a prominent presence in publications of the time, such as the prestigious annual ‘Luci e ombre’.
The photograph taken in that mountainous setting, which was particularly congenial to Peretti Griva, is rather classical. Here, one observes a process of the image breaking down within an almost Arcadian landscape characterised by a serene atmosphere, as evidenced by the close-up of the animal looking into the camera, whilst in the background the Matterhorn dominates austerely, surrounded by clouds, in all its grandeur. In Venice, like many others, the Piedmontese photographer challenged himself in the search for images that were neither predictable nor, worse still, rhetorical. It must be said that in the 1930s the city was not yet the focus of photographic imagery (for instance, prior to Fulvio Roiter’s *Venise à fleur d’eau* in 1954, there were no photographic books on the city), but the fact remains that this vertical composition, in which the gondolas stand out against the backdrop of the Church of the Salute, possesses a remarkable sense of composure.
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