Dreaming Venice - European Travel Books

Hardcover - 30 October, 2004 - Vianello Design
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By: Ivo Prandin and Fernando Bertuzzi
ISBN: 8872000718

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Venice without all the Tourist Trappings: A Return to the True Lagoon City

For those whose hearts have a special place for the intangible feeling of the spirit of Venice this fine book of photographs will surely satisfy. As Ivo Prandin explains in a short but pertinent essay 'Venice is a place in which you never know when dream ends and history begins. There is no clear boundary between imagination and reality'. And then the pages unfold with the curiously unique photographic monograph of Venice as seen through the talented eye and camera of Fernando Bertuzzi.

Contained in this book are some of the more 19th century Romantically informed photographic compositions of the city of Venice ever published. Bertuzzi frames his locations and his subjects much the way the 19th century Venetian artists painted them, electing to wait for just the right moment of light, the right degree of cloud cover, the pools of reflective water left by a passing rain. The canals have never appeared more functional as the sole source of transportation nor have the varied ironwork grills and ornamentation of cloistered homes been more creatively captured. Here are the back corners of the endlessly fascinating city as well as the painfully studied moments of solitude of St Mark's Square. The collection is rich in color but richer in mood and atmosphere.

This is the Venice few of us see unless, like Bertuzzi, we have lived there all our lives. It is a magnificent journey for the eye and the spirit. Highly recommended. In Italian and English. Grady Harp, January 06

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