meditations Archives - Luigi Barbano Photography

The art of photography since 1994

Sep 28

Black and White Tales, Print #38

What to say… summer just ended! Ouch! . . See you next time when I will be over my end of summer sadness!

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Sep 22

Black and White Tales, Print#37

Are we losing the sense of beauty? . . The sense of beauty is what makes us human but we are forgetting that sometimes.

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Sep 15

Black and White Tales, Print #36

I didn’t forgot the anniversary of 9/11, I simply did not found a suitable image for what I wanted to say, so I’m here again with another image from the same road trip of the last 2 Tales. . . . See you next time with another print.

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Sep 08

Black and White Tales, Print #35

As I anticipated in the last B&W Tale, here another image and another story from the roadtrip I took in South Italy, 30 years ago with my father. This time we are in Puglia, exactly in Torre Canne and I wonder how the place can be changed in 30 years. . . . See you next time, probably with another tale and image from the same trip!

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Aug 31

Black and White Tales, Print #34

When common sense and a decent education disappear, then we need rules for every aspect of our lives. A moment of a road trip, father and son, became a picture and years later a symbol of the importance of good education. . . . See you next time, and remember, it’s prohibited to… .

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Black and White Tales, Print #33

The facts regarding Magnum and the suspension of the photographer David Alan Harvey, that you can read about in a PetaPixel article, started a debate online about photojournalism. As usual, most of the debate was pro or against D.A. Harvey by people not knowing the facts and pretending to judge, forgetting as usual the principle of innocence. Personally I started to think about photojournalism and why I never worked in that field. This week picture is a symbol of my choice and a good starting point to explain it. . . . My opinion about the Magnum case is very simple: I do not understand what is going on and what was behind the series of events, included the elimination of some pictures by Harvey from the agency archive, that ended with the suspension. I only know that for me a man is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and I’m sure there are better reasons to suspend people from a photo agency, like for example staging images, retouching them and being an a%%^#le with a poor Afgan girl. But if you create a propaganda that fit the agency nobody will suspend you, no matter how much […]

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Black and White Tales, Print #32

To express complex ideas we need complex formal languages. In visual arts one of the most important language is composition. In this week print I wonder why we moved from complex form of compositions to the banality of a “mandatory” rule of thirds… and I wonder also about some other things… It’s a long ranting, you are advised! lol . . . Until the next one…

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Aug 11

Black and White Tales, Print #31

A real summer t-storm with rain… better than a AI created fake sunny day. Sometime I just use film photography to document a moment with a medium that cannot be manipulate by AI to create a fake reality. But I’m an old dinosaur still thinking that ethic is essential and truth exists. . . . See you next time!

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Aug 03

Black and White Tales, Print #30

There is no reason to not have a culture when public libraries are free and open to everyone… at least if you understand what culture is and do not confuse it with shared ignorance. . . . See you next time.

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Jul 07

Black and White Tales, Print #26

How many bureaucrats does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to spot the burned-out bulb, his supervisor to authorize a requisition, a requisition typist, twelve clerks to file the requisition copies, a mail clerk to deliver the requisition to the purchasing department, a purchasing agent to order the bulb, a clerk to forward the purchasing order, a clerk to mail-order a receiving clerk to receive the bulb … . . . See you next time, if we will not be in the dark 😉 .

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