While many photographers continued to prefer black and white for its ductility and undoubted charm, Franco Fontana sensed that these same characteristics could also be attributed to color. It is in this chromatic universe that he brought out his vision of the world focused above all on a reflection on the landscape with implicit but intuitive references to abstractionism. Every single image like this (characterized by the contrasts between the soft blue of the sky and the four intense shades assumed by the earth reiterated by the precious Dye Transfer print that perfectly reproduces the original colors) contains the characteristics of his research in this field. When he decides to lay his gaze on the United States, this characteristic is accentuated and the shot becomes markedly frontal as if to underline that country's exaggerated taste for emphasis. Everything changes in front of Correggio's urban spaces: the colors become delicate, the framing accentuates the sense of depth and the atmosphere becomes poetic.