ON THE DECISION TO COLLECT PHOTOGRAPHS Foreword For one hundred and fifty years, from 1839 to 1989, human beings produced images on paper, on glass, on metal, on porcelain, on cloth, on anything that could hold a trace of light. I will not call these images « analog. » I prefer to say physical photography, or material […]
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PARTITA DOPPIA-III This third issue bears the title « Quando la fotografia diceva la verità ». This theme—“When Photography Told the Truth”—served as the guiding thread for the internship of this year’s Erasmus students, in 2026. Richard Avedon said: “All photographs are accurate; none is the truth.” For seventeen years now, Michele Smargiassi, in his book *An Authentic […]
Harar, ancient city in southern Ethiopia Rimbaud arrived in Harar for the first time in December 1880, after a journey from Aden to Zeila, followed by a twenty-day horseback caravan through the Somali Desert. At that time, the city was an ancient Muslim emirate under Egyptian control, with a population consisting of Harari, Oromo, Somalis, Arabs, Indians, and […]
INVITO A PARTECIPARE Biennale di Senigallia Edizione Intermedia – 2026 We invite historians, legal scholars, photographers, archivists, experts, and image scholars to submit contributions reflecting on the evidentiary and documentary role of photography in the digital age, across courts, archives, and everyday practices of the gaze. The study day will be held on Friday, June […]
PARTITA DOPPIA-II This second issue comes at a moment when the alignment of some major technology companies with political power has led many users to reconsider their choices. Claude — Anthropic’s artificial intelligence — carries the name of Claude Shannon. This is not a decorative coincidence: it is an intellectual lineage that this issue sets […]