Evel Knievel Smiling with Stunt Double

2023

This unique capture features Lucille Ball hugging Desi Arnaz in a captivating studio portrait. Lucille Ball was an American actress, comedian, model, enter...

This atmospheric black and white portrait features actor James Dean in his starring role for the film "Giant", 1955. Giant was the last of James Dean's three films as a leading act...

Retro 1970s photograph depicting a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, the champion bodybuilder who was Mr. Olympia a staggering seven times showing the elegant side of himself as he takes ...

This black and white candid capture features a radiant Jane Russell stands out from the crowd while arriving for an event in Hollywood, California, circa 1958. Jane Russell was an ...

Black and white candid portrait of Kim Novak and Cary Grant dancing at an event in 1956. Cary Grant was an English-American actor known for his mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demean...

Playful black and white print of Jayne Mansfield smiling with hands and knees on floor. Jayne Mansfield was an American film, theater, and television actress. She was also a singer...

'Into the Beyond' Limited edition archival photograph. Unframed, hand signed and numbered _________________ Painted pools of light dance across the richly layered mountainscape of t...

'Into the Beyond' Limited edition archival photograph. Unframed, hand signed and numbered _________________ Painted pools of light dance across the richly layered mountainscape of t...

The iconic buildings of modern architecture are wonderful. No doubt. Every single line is designed to create a result of power, glory, and undisputed beauty. Are you sure? … By quest...

The iconic buildings of modern architecture are wonderful. No doubt. Every single line is designed to create a result of power, glory, and undisputed beauty. Are you sure? … By quest...

The iconic buildings of modern architecture are wonderful. No doubt. Every single line is designed to create a result of power, glory, and undisputed beauty. Are you sure? … By quest...

The “Still Live” photographs” are a manifesto of slowness, of the pleasure of observation, of recovery of reflection. Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula takes an everyday object from his household, one that appears to no longer be useful because it is old, broken or only kept for its sentimental value. He places it in a space and makes use of his monorail camera. Before taking the shot, he studies the object calmly, engaging in an intimate dialogue with it until he finds a view that gives it a new life. It is hard to get it right the first time. All the various attempts are measured, calculated, slow. Speed does not belong to the monorail camera. Each attempt is well thought out, then developed in a darkroom and scanned using a special technique to bring out the image. It can take several days to get the right result. But these are days that have the pleasure of slowly rediscovering a past that you somehow manage to reclaim. Here, we are a long way away from the execution speed typical of digital and even further away from the frenetic exploitation of images on social media. The result is an image that erupts with its wealth of detail, which is especially explosive when printed in large format. The object becomes seductive, often turning into something else entirely, that may not be immediately perceptible. The perspective, the details, the light, all stimulate the observer to actively participate in this new vision. Far from being a nostalgic interpretation, the work leads the viewer to investigate the form, to pause, to observe the details, to get lost in the haziness, and in so doing, to regain possession of their time in a gesture of profound observation. In this hectic, busy, fast-paced world, nothing ever stops making sense...