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Marco Zanta - In Principio, Linea di Confine Editore, 2015, Rubiera

Softcover, 1000 copies, signed, design by Paolo Palma | Metodo Studio, text by Barbara Pregnolato, Marco Zanta.

The project Another Landscape, conceived and promoted by Invisible Cities, stems from the desire to tell through the photographic survey a complex territory and still little known as the Po Delta. Through the eyes by one of the important Italian contemporary photographers, Marco Zanta, it wanted to create a new contribution to the imaginary linked to the Delta far from the natural landscape.
Normally Zanta has worked mostly in metropolitan environments, here has produced between the small towns of the Delta a new work developed from his recent photographic reflections.
About this project the author says: "In addition to representing the places, I interest more understand the relationships that develop inside the territory. I think that the aspect that struck me more of these areas have been the type of suspension of the time that seems to surround everything. The iconographic identity of these places continues to be apparently similar to a few decades ago. It seems not occur big changes. The similarities with the past are still present. But what attracts me it is the context in which all this takes place. We are a few kilometers from urban centers and commercial areas that have helped to create the model of the Italian North East. A model that today seems to have failed. Here we are catapulted into another time, a period almost without nostalgia (...) " (from the publisher)

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Pages: 64
Place: Rubiera
Year: 2015
Publisher: Linea di Confine Editore
Size: 16 x 24 cm (approx.)