Vice Versa

Vice Versa

Stefano Cerio (Photographer), Cristiana Perrella (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Walter Guadagnini (Text by (Art/Photo Books))
$39.00
Publication Date: November 12th, 2013
Publisher:
Contrasto
ISBN:
9788869654435
Pages:
120

Description

Stefano Cerio asserts photography's ability to render manifest the invisible, what is usually hidden from the eye--not, as the modernist tradition embodied by the "new vision" would have it, by exploiting the particular characteristics of the camera, nor, according to the lesson of photojournalism, by showing a surprising aspect of daily life, but by searching those parts of the world that only a specific and determinate photographic intentionality can bring to light. The work of Stefano Cerio fits into one of the most significant and distinctive areas in Italian photography.


About the Author

Stefano Cerio lives and works in Rome and Paris.

He began his career as a photographer at the age of 18, contributing to the Italian

weekly L'Espresso. Since 2001, his interest has gradually moved towards explorative

photography and video.

His work increasingly focuses on the theme of representation, exploring the boundary

line between vision, recounting the real and the spectator's horizon of expectation, the

staging of a possible reality that might not be true but is at least plausible. In this sense,

projects such as Sintetico Italiano (Italian Synthetic), Souvenir, Aquapark, Night Ski,

are stages in a coherent artistic development which finds in the concept of memory, in

the "other" place as a catalyst for present desires and future memories, in the idea of

holiday and entertainment, that suspension of daily life which the author studies and

recounts in images.

His works are to be found in many public and private collections.