date » 11-10-2026 18:33
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tags » abstraction photography, cosmic shape, orage color, red color, rust, oxidaction, olympus camedia c 5060 wz,
Cosmic Vaultings — Archaeology of the Invisible
Four oxidized sheet-metal panels are articulated by a rigid seam and slashed by a clean diagonal beam of light. The oxidation is not decay here, but a register of time where corrosion reveals an underlying map of faces. It all depends on how and where the eye—rather than merely resting—scans the surface like a sonar. High on the left, a face stands vertically in the rust, while right below it another face appears with its hair, eye, and strong nose carved into the dark iron. Moving to the right side, there is a whole crowding of female faces—some subtle, others luciferian and infernal. If you scan the upper third, two women's faces emerge together, followed by a third one higher up, and as you scan down into the lower third of the same panel, yet another female face takes shape. As Saint-Exupéry wrote, "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur; l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." Vision is an act of extraction: where the crowd sees only rust and degraded iron, the attentive eye reveals presence.NB. If click on image you will be able to see original
date » 09-10-2026 09:14
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tags » autumn, fall, landscape photography, daylight in autumn,
© archive manunzio
We are, as in autumn upon the trees... the leaves.
(Giuseppe Ungaretti)
date » 21-09-2026 08:18
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tags » river swiming, bw photo, street photography, boys in river, allah akbar, summertime, ai no problem, screeplay and photo,
First and foremost, here and now—of a pretty decent September, just a few degrees cooler, which is better.
Ok the image in cover side, yeah, exactly: imagining the scene as a film frame rather than a still photo. Let me explain. Photography does indeed involve thinking before you click, barring lucky breaks, of course. But here it’s different.
Yeah, if I go back, well, nobody films and then writes the scene—in fact, it’s the exact opposite if, I repeat, we’re in a movie with film or “minchiapixel” (a Sicilian slang term for “dick" & " pixels” . A neologism by Manunzio, off-base and even off-key: you can tell!). Oh, citizens out there: wake up! You always have to spell everything out for grown-ups—ugh, just like in *The Little Prince*. Eh. Here, it’s the AI that had fun creating an image based on my own “input” input, just to see what kind of effect it would have, à la Jannacci (italian singer and much other) of yesteryear. And the result, to be honest, isn’t bad at all if I post it here. Black-and-white text (my input) and a black-and-white image (from AI): nothing more, nothing less—I’ll keep it to myself… well, on the Diary…
P.S. Just as the text has no space-time coordinates—which, according to Einstein Teory, is the same thing or two for the price of one (as the supermarket says)—the image, too, is a “transfiguration” of a non-place to proceed, which is what’s needed outside of “cause and effect.”
First of all, an image still possible here and now of a pretty decent September, just a few degrees cooler, which is better.
date » 10-09-2026 09:45
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tags » paul strand blind new york, book that I writing, manunzio site, photographic culture, history of photography,
The Fortunella
It is the remake of Paul Strand’s Blind (this is a part of book that writing my book and the text left image...here’s why I recount she that cavernous, toothless Pugliese mouth, the personage—a dark abyss of a face—is the very frame of raw, unvarnished survival, mirroring Strand's portrait without a shred of Christian mercy).
Limping up and down the stone pavement of the Main Street all day long, by evening hoisting her carcass up the steep stone stairs of Locanda, clinging to the iron handrail,wheezing all the way back to the "hotel" Regina d'Italia boarding house she eathing. Bundled up, legs swollen tight into coffee-and-milk stockings, sitting watchful at a chocolate-coloured table she eating. She parries the snickers of the locals while plunging her fork into her solitary meal of the day: stewed potatoes. Cold ones, most likely.
Hunched over she own bosom, she count the day’s pennies for a night’s (as Cahrlot in movie The Monel) sleep on an impossible mattress of corn husks of "hotel" Regina d'Italia
date » 03-09-2026 08:04
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tags » luigi ghirri and franco fontana italian photographers, fontana colors of lucania south italy, allah akbar, landscape photography franco fontana uber alles, street photograhy america franco fontana,
Franco Fontana, photographer. He’s dead.
And ninety-two years is a damn good run—a worldly one, for sure. Way back when, Fontana even drifted into these Land (Lucania South Italy) circles; as I recall, hordes of trigger-happy hacks (infuriated pixel-addicts trapped in their own onanistic loop) rushed to bow before the "colorist" Fontana. A man who left his mark across the World and many Galery, as pages of that d'antan monograph published by the then Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri: I Grandi Fotografi" inside it many images of Lucania. As "All Colors of Benetton" or American way of life we could and should remember it. So a disempowered reality, an hyper-colorist image born of fantasies or mink coats—go figure. A fellow Romagnolo, Fontana finds himself his countryman Luigi Ghirri, who has also been underground for quite some time......continuedate » 02-09-2026 11:39
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tags » city life, town life, illusion metropolitan, street photography, allah akbar, woman in street, yellow wall, advertising, motor life, drive-through,
© archive manunzio
...FR...FFF..FR...FRR...
Advertising MOTOR - società di capitale umano, featuring that anthropomorphic "M" that turns the human being into a graphic gear, a balance-sheet commodity—"capital," indeed.
The almost surgical synchronicity: The real figure walking underneath seems literally to "emerge" from the logo, condemned to walk in the same direction, with a measured stride, inside the perimeter traced by the engineers of communication and productivity.
The visual rendering of human (woman) figure, dark and sharp, becomes the living silhouette of corporate/technological solitude, pressed against a neutral wall beneath a massive sign that defines her before she can even define herself....continue...
date » 22-08-2026 17:43
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tags » still life in house, still life food domestic, still life fruits, window artificial for shoot a pear, iphone 4 s, allah akbar, sniper,
© archive manunzio
Una pera o la pera? This is question...
Ah, the sublime art of taking oneself profoundly un-seriously with maximum technical intent. Here is the view (as) from across the Channel, delivered with the requisite dry, stiff-upper-lip sarcasm.
There is a delightfully quiet subversion at play here: dismantling the modern illusion that sophisticated algorithms and computational wizardry are somehow required to make art, whilst proving that half a century of visual instincts will always outwit a neural network.
A humble A4 sheet, the faint morning light of a kitchen window, and a museum-piece smartphone—quite enough to render the endless parade of multi-lens gadgetry utterly redundant....continue
date » 22-08-2026 09:44
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tags » canon printers, amerika (k as killer) way of life, shoot on film to reverse in digital, american photographer, allaha akbar, folding camera, panorama printed on digital,
Amerika (k as killer) way...
Every now and then, you have to bring yourself down to the level of ordinary madness of normal people who normally... And recommend, nonetheless, a typical Yankee whose approach is worth a video-listen, if you please—since there are insights that are anything but second-hand for those who, naturally, still practice photography with science, yes, but also with heart... and above all, guts.
Dissecting a Photo: 1964 Sears Department Store
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https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/_q9i_HEOkxo
Ps. I wrote him...very time I watch her videos, I can’t help but smile. I smile at that classic American madness :) of living in absolute Nothingness and thinking it can be exported as a universal standard. Infamous characters, to put it mildly. Everything modern photography claims to be seems traceable to that "Amerika "with a k of killer)" way of life. Absolute madness. Yet, despite all that, the book she cites is intriguing—though buying it on Amazon costs a fortune, around 150 Euros, which is way too much.
Be that as it may, I appreciate her madness when she turns all those "talks" toward Canon printers. Beautiful machines. I print as an "artist" on the Pro 200 simply for the brilliance of its dye inks. That's all folks.
Manunzio, fotografo dal 1969.
date » 18-08-2026 18:12
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tags » 1939 born photography, niepce daguerre 1939, fox talbot inventor process negative positive photography, square & compass sign of freemassonery, florence hercules real inventor photography, history of photography, allah akbar, hippolyte bayard develope a direct positive paper process prior to august 1839,
Anno Domini 1839
August 1839 in Paris, the umbilicus mundi. Napoleon and his Grandeur—the underlying substrate of transalpine cousins descending from Caesar’s Gauls, though their tribal formats trace back to the dark forests of Germanic cavemen—have long been buried with a dose of poison. The air is electric in the not-yet Ville Lumière. A static buzz of whispers passes mouth to mouth among the common folk. Meanwhile, the powdered wigs—laden with lice, because washing is deemed a sign of popular decay, far removed from the public latrines, free fountains, and Roman thermae of every social stratum—see Deputies, "scientists" of every mandatory capitalized Order, and a horde of court hangers-on paid off by the "daubers" gather. Those Messieurs of the Academy of Fine Arts, no less....continue...date » 17-08-2026 11:23
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tags » history of photography, brand nikon, brand canon, analogic era, film camera early 70s, professional camera,
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