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The world of Fredric II by Toti Calò
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It is widely acknowledged that we, modern men, belong to the images civility. Television, movies, magazines and often a pretty fine publishing, provide us daily with so many pictures and symbols that even our nearest ancestors have never seen in their whole life. And the reason of that is clear: pictures are a language, a universal and synthetic language, well comprehensible to a wide range of people, whatever the cultural level they belong to and the language they speak.
The more, for the audience, their comprehension is fast and often as rich as the written language (sometimes even more) and this is the reason why to a large offering of pictures corresponds a larger requiring of them.
It may seem strange, but often, when someone buys a book, it is because it has a beautiful cover; others look with prejudice at those books having no pictures inside. Finally, we look for
images since they let us understand something with less difficulty than by reading a text, allowing us to indulge in our laziness.
Thanks to the pictures with just a look we can catch an atmosphere, a link, and relations whose description in words would require many lines and maybe without a similar power: the drama of a sunset, the sense of dismay in front of an endless sea, the grandiosity of a mountain, the sweetness of certain landscapes, all this interpreted by the emotions that our soul feels, can be properly expressed only by photography.
The technique to obtain such results is often not easy to be managed, the more it is required a great ability to "see", to isolate the subject in time and space, to choose the perspective and even the hour.
In the imagines we propose, all these goals are achieved, and this is a merit of Toti Calò, an Italian editorial photographer and writer situated in Lecce (Apulia) where he lives and manages the prepress and editorial agency "Horizon lab"; although he is a geo-technician, he never practised, since he prefers to address his study toward a historical-philosophical field, on the basis of which he produces his editorial works, as an author too. He has published in Europe and in the States, and often he hold seminars and conferences for high schools and universities about photography's language. His last published book is "STONES - The Megalithic Architectures of Apulia", the up-to-date census of the megalithic heritage of the south-easternmost region of Italy.