By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
"The Last Days of Summer" (Colour)
Capri, Italy - 2024
Archival Pigment Print on 315gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta Paper
Edition Size: 12
Available sizes:
Standard
Image Size: 37" x 71"
Framed Size: 52" x 86"
Large
Image Size: 54" x 103"
Framed Size: 69" x 118"
"No island in the world elicits a greater sense of golden idleness and a freewheeling love of the pleasures of life than the Italian island of Capri. As far back as 500 BC, the Greeks saw it as a rocky paradise of hedonism and much more recently they were followed by the Marquis de Sade and Oscar Wilde. Even if only half the stories of the debauchery in Capri are true, it has been a good host island to those who believe that life is for living.
There is a unique beauty to the place and a refined simplicity that seduced Hollywood in the 1950s and Jacqueline Kennedy not long after. I sense that Capri does not have to try too hard, because it doesn’t really need to; everything is there and most of it always will be. There is security in the longevity of tenure.
The island’s greatest trick is to offer a sense of belonging to visitors. Our cousins from across the pond, who come every year in their thousands, call it “little America...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment