Venezia : Beyond the Icon

Merizalde, Alejandro (PHT); Pérez-oramas, Luis

/ ISBN 13: 9791254600962

Verlag: Five Continents Editions, 2025

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Dreamlike black and white photographs capture the mysterious beauty of this beloved city as it is without tourists and beyond the usual places.

Alejandro Merizalde began photographing in Venice in 2008. In his early visits he found the city stiflingly overcrowded, but during a brief winter trip a few years later, the overcast skies and foggy atmosphere allowed him to draw out Venice's legendary beauty without the disruptions of mass tourism.
In 2013 he started experimenting with longer exposures to eliminate the distractions of human activity and enable him to concentrate on his architectural compositions. This shift in approach was gradual, but it helped him realize that he was no longer interested in recording iconic features like St Mark’s Basilica, the Bridge of Sighs and the gondola, to name a few. From then on, he dropped the predictable locations and buildings and trained his lens on the Venice lagoon and areas of the city where Venetians actually spend their lives.

Text in English, French and Italian.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Luis Pérez-Oramas was born in Caracas in 1960. He is a poet and art historian, holding a PhD in Art History from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1994). He was the curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 2003 to 2017, and is the author of several exhibition catalogues, essays on art, social issues and political criticism, as well as nine books of poetry.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Venezia : Beyond the Icon
Verlag: Five Continents Editions
Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New