| When the week of Italian designer Federico Ciamei arrived a few months ago, time stood still for a while in the editor’s office. Everyone, even the experts, gathered around to look at the photographs. Holding their breath, they stared at the computer monitor in silence. In the first seconds, and even minutes, it was not at all clear that it wasn’t a fake set composed of color photographs from the 70s or 80s or new photographs of the lowest technical quality or an instigation targeted at top quality digital devices able to produce ultra sharp and quality images. None of this turned out to be true. This, I dare say, artist’s documentary concept was absolutely exceptional. It worked with the atmosphere of the scene more than with anything else that the digital world offers today! Color desaturated images with frequent artistic exposure error but deliberately selected and composed to directly pull us into the action were exposed on negative and had undergone a chemical process (C41), which most likely means nothing to anyone anymore. Thus, let’s return some time to “back to the future“. |
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