Video: Street retro photographs of life in Italy in the 1980s
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
English writer Charles Caleb Colton stated: "We go to Italy to see Italy, but not to see Italians." And here is his namesake, a photographer Charles H. Traub, I am sure of the opposite: the everyday life of Italians is so entertaining that it is worth talking about it. Its cycle street photography "Dolce Via" dedicated to life 1980s Italy.
American Charles Traub repeatedly visited Italy in the 1980s, and the result of his trips was an entertaining photo cycle. The pictures were taken in various Italian cities from "fashionable" Milan to "wine" Marsala. Features of culture, fashion trends, lifestyle of Italians - all this got into the lens of a photojournalist. Vivid pictures are engraved in memory, they illustrate expressive moments that Charles Traub accidentally witnessed.
Critic Howard Chua-Eoan commented on the photo cycle in an interview with Time: “The photos are sensual and sad, full of color and pleasure, magnificent even in their melancholy. This is the nature of Italy itself, the nature of every thing in this country."
The photocycle was named “Dolce Via” for a reason: from the stable phrase “sweet life”, replacing just one letter, the resourceful photographer made a “sweet way”. Apparently, the Italian journey turned out to be exciting, exciting and full of pleasant aftertaste for Charles Traub. Despite the fact that the pictures were taken more than 30 years ago, they have not previously been shown in the same collection. Not so long ago, the publication "Dolce Via: Italy in the 1980's" was published, which contains all the frames that fell into the lens of Charles Traub.
Recently, retro photography has attracted more and more interest from the audience. On the site Kulturologiya. RF we wrote about other street photographers who have created touching photo cycles about the life of Detroit, New York and Paris, the city of love.
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