Auditorium "Parco della Musica" (Renzo Piano 2002) - Rome 2009

Thank you for your comments, critiques and suggestions, G.

Una struttura architettonica non facile da interpretare anche perche', non solo a mio parere, ma anche secondo addetti ai lavori (...non gelosi di Renzo Piano...), gli interni non sono all'atezza degli esterni che non sono stati realizzati secondo il primitivo progetto dell' Autore. Comunque il tuo "occhio" la ha resa interessante:...Ciaomau!

Giuseppe

 

Again a strong light - shadow compositon as we know from you.

Molto bella Giuseppe, a presto. Antonio

dear friends. Maurizio is absolutely right when he says that the Auditorium is not so easy o be interpreted. I have spent some time there with one of my best friends testing a Nikon 35 mm lens he had graciously lent me. This work (and those few that I will post later) are the result of this relaxing, serene afternoon spent in good company. Thank you for your appreciation, Giuseppe

A beautifully composed geometric puzle with a human keyhole. Wonderful as always, Giuseppe.

Wonderful again. With your own great sense of geometry and space. I like the tiny human shadow very much.

The 'tiny human shadow' is not just that at all, but is the entire raison d'etre for selecting and posting this wonderful, and complex photo.

 

The dark, blackish line of the building, top and leftish makes a sweeping turn, from upper left to the bottom and to the right. The human figure makes a complementary but opposite figure, and in much smaller detail.

 

In effect, the human figure is a 'mirror' for the building structure large detail, and the human figure detail is perfectly placed for a sense of absolute perfection in spacing.

 

This may or may not be the most wonderful photo anyone ever took, but to my mind it is a masterpiece in that it represents a growing mastery of 'street' and an exemplar of a street artist's exemplary 'vision'.

 

To take such a photo, generally requires a substantial amount of (1) legwork just to be there, (2) lack of shyness in pressing the shutter, (3) inventiveness and insatiable curiosity, or as WInogrand said the ability to take photos 'to see how things will look when I photograph them' (roughly paraphrased -- and not really the joke that many who have seen that quote seem to have understood it to be -- it is absolutely a great statement by a great artist. One whose work I am not too fond of, personally), (4) the ability to process an enormous amount of information regarding things one sees, visualize how they will appear reduced to a photograph and even how they will appear through a camera viewfinder, relate them to something such as the formality of a 'composition' as here, with mirroring and reverse mirroring, and then pressing the shutter at the exact correct time.

 

Looking further into the photo, we see two more complementary lines in the photo, but this time the dark building structure lines are behind the man, and this time they are of the same form as the man, instead of being reversed, but again he is much smaller.

 

So, this photo is also a small, humorous 'take' on 'scale' - a very subtle and wry piece of photographic humour, I sense or at leasst just 'wryness of the photographer', whether he recognized that in himself or not.

 

In that sense, this is an extraordinary photo - a minor masterpiece though more for technical virtuosity than tugging at the heartstrings of course.

 

Life has room for both, I feel, as well as many others, and as you get more comfortable with your growing accomplishment, Giuseppe, and even 'fame' as a photographer, maybe you will begin more and more to approach people up close and attempt portraiture and more intimate or difficult scenes. . . . or maybe not.

 

Cartier-Bresson did portraits, but always of scenes, and not 'heads'.

 

'I don't do heads', he protested, sometimes loudly.

 

He could not understand photographing 'heads'.

 

(I do, however, and do so often, if they're interesting, but I am not a clone of Cartier-Bresson, though I think that would not be such a bad deal).

 

My compliments to you on this amazingly well choreographed and previsualized photograph and for your image editing skills in choosing to let us see it.

 

John (Crosley)

Es realmente una fantastica imagen arquitectonica, el edificio habla por si mismo, y tu lente ha logrado traducir su mensaje perfectamente en una gran fotografia. Creo que no hace falta hablar de los estupendos colores, o la bien lograda composicion....lo dicho, la foto habla por si misma: es magnifica!