Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Rob C on May 12, 2019, 07:50:15 am
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I found this site by happenstance; it's also in pretty reasonable English translation, with lots of interesting material to pursue.
http://www.italianways.com/materas-musma/
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The pity is I wasn't old enough to visit Matera when it was really interesting.
David Seymour, Matera. (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=David+Seymour+Matera&tbm=isch&source=hp&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiu2aLHiZbiAhVjURUIHVIpCucQsAR6BAgJEAE&biw=1366&bih=1047#imgrc=_&spf=1557666960567)
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Yes we are too young...
https://mediastore3.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/c/0/a/c/PAR99462.jpg
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The pity is I wasn't old enough to visit Matera when it was really interesting.
David Seymour, Matera. (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=David+Seymour+Matera&tbm=isch&source=hp&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiu2aLHiZbiAhVjURUIHVIpCucQsAR6BAgJEAE&biw=1366&bih=1047#imgrc=_&spf=1557666960567)
Indeed; add the gift of invisibility and you'd - we'd all have been laughing!
Until the seventies or so the place was seen as the shame of Italy; did folks have a right to exploit that at that time?
Raises a delicate question, though: where does voyeurism differ from art? Or does it, or does the latter simply excuse the former?
Rob
P.S.
That hotel. For the dates I just typed in, starting today, a week would run me €230 a night.
Not bad for an ex-slum. Maybe something for the old Gorbals to have considered...
:-)
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Not entirely on topic, but it seems like there's a fresh series of Inspector Montalbano coming soon with the original, older cat with the charisma. I wonder who will play the girlfriend this time around? Liked the first one best!
Rob
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Not entirely on topic, but it seems like there's a fresh series of Inspector Montalbano coming soon with the original, older cat with the charisma. I wonder who will play the girlfriend this time around? Liked the first one best!
Rob
I can't get the TV series over here, but I've read ALL the books (in translation). I just hope he writes a few more soon.
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The pity is I wasn't old enough to visit Matera when it was really interesting.
Everything is interesting when you're young, Keith. It's a built-in condition for young eyes which haven't seen enough of the world to become bored with it.
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Everything is interesting when you're young, Keith. It's a built-in condition for young eyes which haven't seen enough of the world to become bored with it.
I am sorry to say that I have to agree.
It applies in spades to boobs and butts, which is why given the miracle of a second chance, I'd leap instantly back into fashion photography and its infinite opportunities for endless variation.
Rob