#rome photography

[ancientsstudies]

Chiesa di Santa Maria ai Monti by callicles.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Steps off the Beaten Path Sentieri smarriti e ritrovati

Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Rome and its Environs

Roma e dintorni nelle fotografie del secondo Ottocento

by W.Bruce Lundberg (Author, Editor), John Pinto (Editor), Vincenzo Carlo (Artist), Domenico Baldassarre Simelli  (Artist)

Charta, Milano, American Cademy in Rome, 2008, 216 pages, 24,13x27,94cm, English/Italian, ISBN 978-8881586677

euro 60,00

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By 1860, photography in Rome was undergoing dramatic change. The level of detail made possible by new glass wet plate and albumen techniques encouraged photographers to take a documentary approach, focusing on architectural fragments, transitional spaces like stairways, even citizens going blurrily about their daily business–in short, on everything but the city’s oft-photographed basilicas and ruins. The candid, frequently off-balance images collected in this unique volume, by photographers such as Vincento Carlo, Domenico Baldessare Simelli, Eugène Gustave Chauffourier, A. de Bonis and Edmond Lebel, anticipate both street photography and postmodern photographic abstraction.

These photographers have only recently begun to emerge from obscurity and remain poorly documented. Indeed, many of their images have never been exhibited, and in some cases attribution remains conjectural. By bringing a significant body of work together, this collection sheds new light on their individual artistic personalities and illuminates the contributions of the group to the history of photography.

31/01/24

[m1male2]

Capilla Sixtina

[zegalba]

Between January and February in Rome, starlings mass by the hundreds of thousands, performing an aerial dance.

[wandering-cemeteries]

Angel with a rose.

Verano Monumental Cemetery

Rome, Italy

Feb. 2024

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

The Stabian Baths in the ancient city of Pompeii

The thermae were constructed around 125 BC. Hundred years later, the baths were connected to Pompeii's aquaduct. They were damaged in the earthquake of 62 AD.

[undr]

William Klein. Summer evening, via di Monserrato, Rome, 1956

[wandering-italy]

The ancient ruins of the Baths of Caracalla.

Rome

Dec. 2019

[nobeerreviews]

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

-- William Faulkner

(Roma)

[escapismsworld]

📍Palazzo Spada, Rome, Italy

[ancientsstudies]

Chiesa di Santa Maria ai Monti by lafcadio1974.

[30260]

cimitero acattolico di roma. tomba di john keats. ottobre 2023

[old-movie-stars]

Sophia Loren in Rome, 1955

[m1male2]

House of the Vestals, Forum, Rome

[wandering-jana]

The Ancient Roman gate of Susa, Italy.