Maurizio Galimberti, La promessa

La promessa

Maurizio Galimberti

Publisher
Skira
Year
2023
ISBN
978-88-57249-74-2
Specifications
80 pages
Italian and English
262 plates

Known for working almost exclusively with the Polaroid, with which he has developed a highly personal technique of taking an image apart and putting it back together, Galimberti here confronts the great tragedy of Marcinelle sixty-six years on.

Through two hundred and sixty-two shots — as many as the victims of the disaster that struck the Belgian mining town on the morning of 8 August 1956 — he reuses existing images, setting them in context, placing them in history, digging inside what has already been photographed to find a meaning left to one side and a soul inside the mechanical body.

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