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cm 22,5 x 17 | 8.8 x 6.6 in.
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The two photographs proposed here belong to the first phase of Camisa's research, the one in which he devoted himself to portraiture with rigor and originality. His various travels in the South and North Africa put him in contact with different realities that he interprets with a dry style deliberately far from the rhetoric that had free circulation in the 1950s because, as we know, the poor are more photogenic and the grazing sheep make for much cheap folklore. The close-up shot of the swordfish stretching across the floor takes us directly to observe the woman and child barefoot and sitting on the scales on which the prey will be weighed: both embarrassed, much is told of their silent, ancient world. More direct, proud in their costumes are, on the other hand, the members of a Brotherhood: one notices the photographer to whom he gives a curious glance, while the other is caught in the moment when, pensively, he lights a cigarette.
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