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CALIFORNIA
I did not know what to expect from California, or from US for that matter... Let's just say, living aside the many good or bad useless stereotypes about this country, that I was truly impressed. It's almost like the difference between watching a movie and meeting the cast for real. When you walk around, you are somehow already familiar with the scenes and you unconsciously know what to expect them to be like... but it's different because you are inside them. Weird sensation.
This project was shot in January 2010, between San José and San Francisco. It is intended to capture the idea of common every-day scenes from a place that is at the same time new and know.
California - San Francisco / San Jose 2010
Digital Shots - Photography on the road
© Francesco MancusiThe author I took inspiration from is the American photographer Stephen Shore, born in 1947. His most important works called "Uncommon Places" and "American Surfaces" changed the way we think of contemporary photography, revealing an exceptional and unexpected beauty in banality and everyday life. Shore's was strongly influenced by the FSA photography group artists, such as Walker Evans, and like them dedicated most of his professional career taking "on the road" pictures around North America.
Advancing more recent genres, the scenes he represents are at the same time "common" and extraordinary, monumental. He is also one of the first art photographers to work in colour, capturing the mild blues of the sky, the mustard yellows and the avocado greens in an unusual and effective chromatic combination. You can have a look at some of his shots on the website of the New Yorks's 303 gallery or checking out these books on amazon or phaidon
"I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I’m interested in." - Stephen Shore
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photographer, runner, traveller, developer, designer, actor, entrepreneur and blogger. Not necessarily in this order.
