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Photography blog and portfolio by Luminis Imago, amateur photographer based in Italy. Photographs and articles about photographic culture.
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A sequence of documentary photographs on art cafés. Once meeting places for literates and artists, now testaments to a fading lifestyle. Full sequence here.
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Light and Shadow of the Wood is a sequence on the wood as a natural place, its main material elements, and the metaphor my eyes see in them. Full sequence here.
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The sculpture of David —who, according to the biblical story, astutely defeated the giant Goliath— was placed in front of Palazzo Vecchio to remind the government that in the Republic, the people are stronger than the tyrants. At the same time, with this sculpture, Michelangelo portrayed an ideal of male beauty that combines physical strength,…
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The Seagull’s Sequence
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The Naiads —Nymphs of freshwater— were guardians of sacred places, nurturers of infant gods, fierce defenders against assaults to their purity. I glanced at this sculpture in a repository of unhexibited artifacts in a Villa Borghese’s museum. It was lying amid sparse marbles and stones, as a relic of the time when these symbols of…
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More ancient sculptures on LuminisImago blog
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Gazing at the horizon: distance travelled, or a shore to come?
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The Sea neither divides nor unites. It follows the voyage with a gentle ripple, lest the traveller be frightened by the dark abyss. Later we’ll realize that the Sea wasn’t the space between two shores, but the very time of the journey. More Mare Nigrum
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Barren and desert, sailed by heroes, mother of Aphrodites. Divine and human sea. More Mare Nigrum
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