date » 09-07-2026 07:56
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tags » that's all folks, last supper, ultima cena leonardo, still food and drink, carmelitani scalzi, olympus c 8080,
That's all folks!...
..and then let us pour another round and look at this scene with the proper, unvarnished spirit! Because I'm absolutely right: this isn't some dry, academic art lecture. This is a true counter-top miracle. In birra veritas, after all.
Imagine the sheer drama fermenting across this table. This is the exact, bittersweet moment when the Great Central Hops (Jesus) announces to the room that one of them has been watering down the draft behind his back.
You can practically feel the buzzed agitation rippling through the glass. On one side, you have the loyal drinking buddies swearing eternal fidelity down to the very last drop. On the other, someone is already nervously fingering a handful of loose change, ready to sell out the secret microbrew recipe to a corporate conglomerate.
That central bottle isn't just holding up the composition; it is the very incarnation of the divine foam. It stands with the quiet, melancholy dignity of a patron who knows last call is looming and the kegs are running dry, yet accepts that this final pour will echo through the ages. Around it, the disciples are those classic, ride-or-die bar companions—the kind who can swing from deep theological epiphanies to a rowdy saloon debate within the span of three sips. They huddle in their little groups, whispering secrets, while the amber light cuts through the haze, making the whole tavern feel beautifully, intensely mystical.
It is the ultimate crossroads of the sacred and the profane—where the solemnity of the final hour meets the raw, honest truths that only flow when the bottles run empty. Cheers to that...folks!
date » 17-11-2025 12:07
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tags » rodney smith photographer, rodney smith black and white, silvana editoriale, rodney smith philosopher photographic shot, history of photography, ernst haas in america, banks bankers culture, san paolo galleries italy, black and white photography, hasselblad,
Side One
Smith like Rossi as a common patronymic. Well. Now, surfing on Internet, I come across a book dedicated to him: photographer-philosopher-theologian of studies. Rodney born in New York which the "summa" of his being and photography. Mainly in black and white, but at least two (valuable and iconic color) in the book published by a certain Silvana-Editoriale never heard at moment, which deserves for (us) non-anglophiles also italian translation. The images of book are transposed from an exhibition in Rovigo (North Italy). Vice versa, a bad as plague review (a man or woman don't make difference for idiocy) in incipit before us showing the photos: please no, thank. Like the Chairman (Bankister?) even of ‘my’ San Paolo Bank. Of course, San Paolo of Tarsus Biblical figure, has a bank...And the Mayor's (in this case a woman) writing , i.e. a very pragmatic text, sure, but about “economic repercussions” etc. etc. etc. pure idiocy. And then the priestesses guardians of Rodney Smith's thought: my God. It is no coincidence that there is no discreet excursus on the author's Hasselblad (him gear) least as I seen (reflex) him in shop window while busy photographing his wife and the travelers along a road in Northern Italy. In short, if another Great photographer (Ernst Haas) has etched in stone...
"There is a literary world of thinking and seeing; for centuries, the literary has prevailed over the visual. And today, our eyes are forced to see in literal terms. I hope for the images that, as far as possible, can do so with their own language" ...
...there must be a good reason to say that the language of the Curia, as we call the writing since the Roman Empire, and the visual language, in case but not only of Rodney Smith is other thigs. Other Word for illiteracy people (again man and woman not difference). In fact wrote Walter Benjamin
"‘It is not those who ignore the alphabet, but those who ignore photography will be the illiterates of the future". Illiterate, not the present days, no, but in future... the grammar-syntax-process etc etc etc. Illiterate Uber Alles!
In the end, a valuable book, beautifully printed in two tones, which is a rare feast for the eyes, and not spared us the nonsense (useful paid idiots or writers laudators?) better left unsaid and, as Virgil/Dante poet says, “don't worry about them, just look and move on”... That's all folks. Unfortunately.
Ps. Please note I bought my copy in bookstore and is not a "gift" of editor
date » 05-11-2025 17:56
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tags » giovanni gastel red portrait, model, red, photographic composition, minimalist shot, color photography, photographic symbolism,
©Giovanni Gastel
Anatomie
Anatomy. Simply the slender model's body. Slender, like more (painting) representations of Lust. Then there's the back and its thirty-three vertebrae, for those who understand sign-symbols. The lower (model) back then reaches, step by step, on first vertebra name dedicated, not surprisingly, to Atlantis, which supported the World, mythological sense.
The model's mocking face, smiles, and that index finger, not surprisingly, points precisely spectator, that has been said, does not want to think and is caught up in the lower back: de gustibus. The face (model) is surmounted by hair, a strand of which seems so twisted (artfully) that it resembles the Horns of certain Goats, here too with a capital letter. One Horn, but where is the other? Left to the free thinking of the observer.
A minimalist or, if you prefer, ‘monochromatic’ composition dominated by Red, repetita juvant for those who understand. The background is non-existent, if not otherwise “black and white.” However, if you cut out the model and move her to the left, where black prevails, everything holds up wonderfully, which is the exact essence of a fashion “portrait” or, as you like, the equivalent of a shot that is all too eloquent. I know who make the shot, in Milan, for a press campaign, but I don't longer remember. Subtleties that do nothing more than corroborate the words above. That's all folks.
date » 03-03-2022 10:16
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Hi Artisans photo-printermaker where to start if not, for example, Fabriano and its albums (from latin word albo, white) already at used my home since the days of elementary school?
Fabriano paper, let's go and the n. 4 already in use years ago when I make the experiments in Print-Era inkjet and between profilers and calibrated monitor (then thrown in the trash see bellow link) like a trapeze artist, between gamma 1.8 Mac and 2.2 Windows colorimetric theories Relative Perceptual and ... black dot. A casino royal! At this days ten years have passed, I've just started printing on paper again, a quantum leap in inkjet technology and fairly easy operation. Today, softwares facilitate the final printing on papers with related ICC profiles, or a "translator" between what the monitor sees and the drops of CYMK on the final paper. Closed parenthesis, the Fabriano n. 4 and black and white printing on Canon Pixima Pro 200, and its free proprietary software "Professional Print & Layout" in code PP&L: obviously nothing prohibits, indeed, to print from Pshop, Lightroom and others software. However the software PP&L is a fantastic and discreet ecosystem, we will talk about it in a next thanks to exhaustive video find on Youtube.
Be that as it may, the print test is n.2 A4 Fabriano sheets with its 200 sgm (there's a trick to very end weighing it down more, gluing two sheets in one!) doesn't make you cry out for a miracle, sure, also because I used the "auto-pilot" within the Canon software, just to start from a point. Another mess? No, not at all, as everything beyond the data, let's say purely technical, is worth the personal eye and the taste and one's own vision of the world*, a far cry from the simple, sad and lonely binary code on the monitor, which cannot show the real range of the paper (this is true for every brand) Fabriano 4, its honest gray range** even if in color as we will see later, and here we give it as a premise: chapeau!
On the other hand, another Fabriano, the Rosaspina, which does not need any presentation as it is well known by the masters who use it for drawings and wet techniques, 220 sgm, with a velvety and pleasant touch, transmits an excellent vibration and a nice sound***. And if as happened by mistake to print from the back, you find yourself a surface let's say textured similar to canvas for artists!
And it must be said even if it puts fearful experimenters on the run: the Rosaspina Fabriano "drinks" and absorbs ink like a sponge (which all porous surfaces of other brands do) so that with the Canon Pixima 200 you have to find the mix, let's say, of "inking" in view of the fact that, lacking the layer of barium sulfate or other the surface, and this again applies to all papers produced by third parties, on the Rosaspina the inks tend to sink (spread) between the fibers. Translated: a patina that mixes everything and questionable contrast. And yet, never say never, because there is a way to curb all this and it has the wet mark 609, but we will talk about this "numerology" again.
That's all folks? None because on stage it is another Fabriano Artistico paper that makes the a big difference: here things get interesting, indeed in contradiction with what has just been said. Artistic in the natural white and extra version that we have tested. Artistico Extra White 300 gsm paper that does not seem to be made for "artists" by the wet brush in all its facets. First of all the tactile sensation, which is hardly found in the blasé papers for inkjet, that is pleasant smooth. But if you keep on feeling the paper, it is made of a completely different material: cotton fiber. Now, if the tactile sensation is a good start, the results are amazing, thanks to the fact that the treated surface prevents the dye inks from sinking like the Titanic into the fibers paper. And this translates into sharpness of the edges, contrast and anything else worthy of papers for inkjet: very fine.
The blacks, I'm talking about test black and white prints, here are deep and not as unsteady n. 4, as well as the tonal range as well: it's a pity that the monitor flattens everything and you can't see the difference. Artistico Fabriano it well bears the "underexposure" or the well-known exposure latitude of certain analogue materials aka silver halide. Not enough? In fact Innova in joint venture with Fabriano (we have written and had feedback about it) calls its "special" papers (rough watercolour surface) Artistico and they cost a fortune: à la page c'est vrai?
We have reached the end of the first part with the Fabriano Papers in black and white test, next products of other papers mill, and to follow the more than good results obtained for the color test images. Stay tuned paisà because we are only at the beginning of the fireworks and of a bet already won: the use of art paper (not conventional) on printers Canon Pixma Pro 200. A la prochaine fois paisà
*The human eye sees reality humanly, with all its load of emotions, ideas, preconceptions, culture. In the memory of things there is always a dominant color, the others disappear. From book "Fare un film" Einaudi Editore
**To bring out the typical black of glossy paper shine, the spreading of wax on the print was experimented with good results. Wax already used at the beginning of the twentieth century by Stieglitz, Steichen Ansel Adams and others
***All papers have a "sound" a vibrations, in fact as a pinch your thumb and index finger and swinging the (all factory papers) paper you hear a low sound slightly gloomy but harmonic as when in good weather season a summer storm is approaching
Link
Gallery Fabriano
Tips for better prints
Innova inkjet papers
Ps1.Fedrigoni-Fabriano and others trademarks, in this and all posts, no pay me for advertising
Ps2. A papers selection I purchased to local fine arts supplier, online for Artistico Fabriano and other paper manufacturers
Hi Artisans photo-printermaker where to start if not, for example, Fabriano and its albums (from latin word albo, white) already at used my home since the days of elementary school?
Fabriano paper, let's go and the n. 4 already in use years ago when I make the experiments in Print-Era inkjet and between profilers and calibrated monitor (then thrown in the trash see bellow link) like a trapeze artist, between gamma 1.8 Mac and 2.2 Windows colorimetric theories Relative Perceptual and ... black dot. A casino royal! At this days ten years have passed, I've just started printing on paper again, a quantum leap in inkjet technology and fairly easy operation. Today, softwares facilitate the final printing on papers with related ICC profiles, or a "translator" between what the monitor sees and the drops of CYMK on the final paper. Closed parenthesis, the Fabriano n. 4 and black and white printing on Canon Pixima Pro 200, and its free proprietary software "Professional Print & Layout" in code PP&L: obviously nothing prohibits, indeed, to print from Pshop, Lightroom and others software. However the software PP&L is a fantastic and discreet ecosystem, we will talk about it in a next thanks to exhaustive video find on Youtube.Be that as it may, the print test is n.2 A4 Fabriano sheets with its 200 sgm (there's a trick to very end weighing it down more, gluing two sheets in one!) doesn't make you cry out for a miracle, sure, also because I used the "auto-pilot" within the Canon software, just to start from a point. Another mess? No, not at all, as everything beyond the data, let's say purely technical, is worth the personal eye and the taste and one's own vision of the world*, a far cry from the simple, sad and lonely binary code on the monitor, which cannot show the real range of the paper (this is true for every brand) Fabriano 4, its honest gray range** even if in color as we will see later, and here we give it as a premise: chapeau!
On the other hand, another Fabriano, the Rosaspina, which does not need any presentation as it is well known by the masters who use it for drawings and wet techniques, 220 sgm, with a velvety and pleasant touch, transmits an excellent vibration and a nice sound***. And if as happened by mistake to print from the back, you find yourself a surface let's say textured similar to canvas for artists!And it must be said even if it puts fearful experimenters on the run: the Rosaspina Fabriano "drinks" and absorbs ink like a sponge (which all porous surfaces of other brands do) so that with the Canon Pixima 200 you have to find the mix, let's say, of "inking" in view of the fact that, lacking the layer of barium sulfate or other the surface, and this again applies to all papers produced by third parties, on the Rosaspina the inks tend to sink (spread) between the fibers. Translated: a patina that mixes everything and questionable contrast. And yet, never say never, because there is a way to curb all this and it has the wet mark 609, but we will talk about this "numerology" again.
That's all folks? None because on stage it is another Fabriano Artistico paper that makes the a big difference: here things get interesting, indeed in contradiction with what has just been said. Artistic in the natural white and extra version that we have tested. Artistico Extra White 300 gsm paper that does not seem to be made for "artists" by the wet brush in all its facets. First of all the tactile sensation, which is hardly found in the blasé papers for inkjet, that is pleasant smooth. But if you keep on feeling the paper, it is made of a completely different material: cotton fiber. Now, if the tactile sensation is a good start, the results are amazing, thanks to the fact that the treated surface prevents the dye inks from sinking like the Titanic into the fibers paper. And this translates into sharpness of the edges, contrast and anything else worthy of papers for inkjet: very fine.
The blacks, I'm talking about test black and white prints, here are deep and not as unsteady n. 4, as well as the tonal range as well: it's a pity that the monitor flattens everything and you can't see the difference. Artistico Fabriano it well bears the "underexposure" or the well-known exposure latitude of certain analogue materials aka silver halide. Not enough? In fact Innova in joint venture with Fabriano (we have written and had feedback about it) calls its "special" papers (rough watercolour surface) Artistico and they cost a fortune: à la page c'est vrai? We have reached the end of the first part with the Fabriano Papers in black and white test, next products of other papers mill, and to follow the more than good results obtained for the color test images. Stay tuned paisà because we are only at the beginning of the fireworks and of a bet already won: the use of art paper (not conventional) on printers Canon Pixma Pro 200. A la prochaine fois paisà
*The human eye sees reality humanly, with all its load of emotions, ideas, preconceptions, culture. In the memory of things there is always a dominant color, the others disappear. From book "Fare un film" Einaudi Editore
**To bring out the typical black of glossy paper shine, the spreading of wax on the print was experimented with good results. Wax already used at the beginning of the twentieth century by Stieglitz, Steichen Ansel Adams and others
***All papers have a "sound" a vibrations, in fact as a pinch your thumb and index finger and swinging the (all factory papers) paper you hear a low sound slightly gloomy but harmonic as when in good weather season a summer storm is approaching
Link
Gallery Fabriano
Tips for better prints
Innova inkjet papers
Ps1.Fedrigoni-Fabriano and others trademarks, in this and all posts, no pay me for advertising
Ps2. A papers selection I purchased to local fine arts supplier, online for Artistico Fabriano and other paper manufacturers
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