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Gelatin silver print
cm 24 x 30,4 (cm 19,7 x 29,8 picture) | 9.4 x 12 in. (7.8 x 11.7 in. picture)
Archivio Fotografico Alfredo Camisa credit stamp on the verso
Alfredo Camisa (Bologna 1927 – Pescia, Pistoia 2007) florentine by adoption, in the 1950s stands out as a valuable author and sharp critic in the debate that accompanies the postwar period in important magazines and within groups such as Cavalli's Misa and Crocenzi's CCF. He published in “Il Mondo” and won various awards, but in the 1960s he abandoned photography to devote himself to his profession as a chemist. Rediscovered in recent times both in his own world (the FIAF in 2002 dedicated a monograph to him) and in the world of exhibitions and collectors, he is sometimes improperly defined as a neorealist. A free spirit, he has Walker Evans and the social anthropology of “The Family of Men” as references.
The image of the woman and the goat belongs to that genre of social photography much practiced by Alfredo Camisa where the attention shifts to the most common aspects of everyday life with a distinctly humanistic slant. Obviously, what is striking is that formal accuracy that allows him to create harmony between all the elements in play. But the author has also been able to go further with projects such as this Urban Alphabet with which, with acumen, he has used the investigative tools dear to reportage to create a series of photographs, each of which captured, inserted in the urban landscape, a letter of the alphabet taken from signs, signs, installations with an outcome of ingenious acumen.
cm 24 x 30,4 (cm 19,7 x 29,8 picture) | 9.4 x 12 in. (7.8 x 11.7 in. picture)
Archivio Fotografico Alfredo Camisa credit stamp on the verso
Alfredo Camisa (Bologna 1927 – Pescia, Pistoia 2007) florentine by adoption, in the 1950s stands out as a valuable author and sharp critic in the debate that accompanies the postwar period in important magazines and within groups such as Cavalli's Misa and Crocenzi's CCF. He published in “Il Mondo” and won various awards, but in the 1960s he abandoned photography to devote himself to his profession as a chemist. Rediscovered in recent times both in his own world (the FIAF in 2002 dedicated a monograph to him) and in the world of exhibitions and collectors, he is sometimes improperly defined as a neorealist. A free spirit, he has Walker Evans and the social anthropology of “The Family of Men” as references.
The image of the woman and the goat belongs to that genre of social photography much practiced by Alfredo Camisa where the attention shifts to the most common aspects of everyday life with a distinctly humanistic slant. Obviously, what is striking is that formal accuracy that allows him to create harmony between all the elements in play. But the author has also been able to go further with projects such as this Urban Alphabet with which, with acumen, he has used the investigative tools dear to reportage to create a series of photographs, each of which captured, inserted in the urban landscape, a letter of the alphabet taken from signs, signs, installations with an outcome of ingenious acumen.
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