date » 16-03-2026 07:57
share » social
tags » caravaggio, michelangelo merisi, street photography, reportage on street, cloudy shoot, old time ritual, thumberwald, rolleiflex f 3.5, agfapan 100, ilford papers, durst enlarger,
© archive manunzio
Yesterday, today and of tomorrow there is no certainty...
When Kapital (with a 'K' as in killer, remember it!), with intelligence that is, to say the least, deceptively complex, enacts Montale's (an italian poety) diurnal comedy, it happens that facts, faces, and the lived experience that precedes the day—let alone years or decades, abomination!—are lost not only, or not so much, from the memory of those who were there, but above all as a collective custom.
And let us be clear that on this and much else, Kapital wallows in delight for the masses, not for those with the fine eye who see the "wallowing" sewage. In short, were it not for Photography, which with all its allure—and let's say all of it—we would continue in an Eternal Present, and let us not pursue further into the "distinction" of the usual living dead who pontificate from morning to night on the television's stagnant water, let alone the Web: Tombola, oops 'à la page' Bingo.
And returning to the image of those stratifications of "things" enclosed, well, in a snapshot. A location of the image no longer existing, remodeled upon the various diurnal and "hygienic frozen" fish, yes those hard and long ones... and ask no more. A collective ritual at the current frozen pace: a metaphoric side or however it seems most fitting to you, anatomy aside. Perhaps.
