Yorgo Tloupas authors an introductory essay for Matteo Ferrari’s photography book “Automotive Monogamy”, exploring the visceral relationship between human beings and automobiles, symbols of status, freedom, and, today, of decline. At the heart of the book, a series of diptychs in which vintage car owners are photographed alongside their vehicles decades after the original image was taken: a photo-sociological project on the passage of time, and on the silent loyalty to the objects that outlast us.
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The objects of his secret
We present the curatorial text by critic, professor, curator, and artistic director Simone Azzoni, produced on the occasion of the publication of Vida Detenida, the photobook by the acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.
The Photographer-Driver: Interview with Kathy Shorr
An excerpt from the interview published by Manuela De Leonardis in Artribune on June 9, 2025, in which the journalist recounts her meeting with New York photographer Kathy Shorr, author of «Limousine», in the welcoming setting of her loft in Tribeca.
Five books on Wim Wenders photography
Wim Wenders, perhaps better known for his career as a director, has always nurtured a deep passion for photography. His photographs, like his films, tell stories of travel, solitude, and introspection.
To the valleys and its people
The Natisone Valleys are a rippling strip of land linking the eastern part of Friuli Venezia Giulia to Slovenia. In these borderlands, isolation finds resonance in a common vibration with nature: a chord modulated in precarious dissonance between immutability and a desire for re-appropriation.
The Picture Man
It’s an existence full of twists and turns that of Gusmano Cesaretti, a famous Italian photographer naturalized American. We want to retrace a brief part of his story through an interview conducted in 2018 by photographer and creative director Stefano Lemon.
The mannequin watching us
Some reflections by philosopher and professor of Aesthetics Andrea Pinotti, contained in Guido Scarabottolo’s book: «I ragazzi del bazar di Kashan».
Make the invisible visible
An extract from the afterword to the last effort of the famous photographer from Modena Franco Fontana, «Invisible», edited by Lorenzo Respi. In sixty years of his career Fontana has photographed what is not seen, managing to fix through the frame an ‘other’ image that is abstracted from reality, free from the subject portrait.
Ljubov’ Popova – The fotomontage
Ljubov’ Popova, a leading figure in Russian constructivism and a lecturer at Vchutemas, was active in various fields of the project, from visual communication to textile design to set design, always in a revolutionary key.
«Skid Row». Beyond the urban chic
Consider Traub’s photographs as a counterpoint to the ubiquitous standard and clichéd images of the urban life of New York City: pedestrians in Times Square or throngs of commuters in the Great Hall of Grand Central Station.