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trash in italy
an unusual italian landsCaPe
think I was among the first to see the
I photos by Elisa and Andrea. To see?
Better to say read.
Chew, dream, touch their visio-
nary otherness. A feeling in which
everything is naturally curious, intel-
ligently furious, civilly snarling. This
Italy, so far from the oleographic image
that we know, refers to a bitter repre-
sentation of man, who is distracted and
absorbed, at the mercy of forces that he
does not see and, precisely for this rea-
son, does not oppose. And when he sees
them it’s too late, because in the mean-
time for the regret of his eyes they have
built what with a bad but effective ne-
ologism we call “eco- monster”. In the
eternal challenge between Man and
Anti-man, this two photographers put
Le “Lavatrici”, Genova
“21 scheletri in cemento armato”, Isola dei Ciurli, Fondi, Latina
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