Luca Campigotto: American Elegy

This luscious volume presents 70 colour photographs of America imbued with both clarity and nostalgia. Italian photographer Luca Campigotto takes us from the canyons, deserts and coal-mining ghost towns of the American West, to the Bronx and other industrial fringes of New York City. Each photo is accompanied by short poetic notes – a journey of personal memories which echo literary and cinematographic works – serving as an evocation of some American topoi.The solitude of the wild frontier and the distance of the urban periphery alternate between dazzling daytime lights and mysterious nocturnes. The afterword by Mauro Pala, a professor of comparative literature, explores the ancient relationship that binds American literature to great landscape photography.
ISBN 9788836648573. Silvana Editoriale . hb. clothbound. 144 pages. 70 colour ills. 30.5 x 24.8 cm. .
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