Rossano B. Maniscalchi It comes to us beaming and smiling, with the unmistakable Tuscan accent: “Thank you for the great' – notes - actually I consider myself a person with his feet firmly on the ground, who likes to make their job well. "
Moving in large and bright spaces of Palazzo Tornabuoni Via dei Pescioni, we are offered refined cocktail as a tribute to the reading of this photographic artist, author of the magnificent portraits Heads of State, Premi Nobel, artists, attori, good intellectual, and captains of industry. Introspective images where Farriers is very able to "dig in", in a refined technique resolution, unique. Rather spontaneous shots made in the major cities of the world, where he now moves almost daily the sight of the 'big'.
After the experience of still lifes and advertsing, Maniscalchi nowadays He has achieved an international reputation thanks to his portraiture, fashion, culture, art, with good dose of beauty and glamor fotography, Also in the field of advertising. Curious person and highly detailed, He elaborates with its clicks images from fairytale, capable of arousing emotions impactful. Beholder 'traveling' towards alternative spaces empathizing in his works, piercing the static concept of visionary pictures, until reaching suggestions of sublime elevation , even in the aspects of normal daily life. Everything for him is a source of dialogue, and he questions the world moving constantly with the beloved "tools of the trade", in Europe but also Florida, California and the Big Apple. Its many great places, although the "green dimension" of the beloved countryside inebriates continuously verso people always new, on which regularly distinguishes its high professionalism.
Sorridente con drink in mano... "I am particularly grateful to Stefano Ricci for the opportunity for letting me present and expose this book - continues - Who believed in this project and it is said that we do not open other in our beautiful Italy, and in other corners of the globe. “
Can you tell us some illustrious name present in this volume?
“Mah…Bocelli, Rita Levi Montalcini, Barak Obama, Salman Rushdie, Lucia Bose, Helmut Berger, Michelangelo Antonioni and still many others, but not all as it was just possible to include further. I'm sorry,maybe next time ... at least I hope so!”
Of any of them is friends?
“Si, right ... I can think of Arnaldo Pomodoro, Pulitzer Prize Michael Cunningham which also made me preface, Ray Manzarek dei Doors unfortunately he passed away recently and I remember with great pleasure Rushdie also, great character, for me it was an honor fotografarlo. A must also mention Gian Luca Try to Monsieur and National Geograpich, he also curator of my book ".
We find it for sale?
“No, only your internet, as it is a non-profit project - limited edition made in collaboration with friends - partners .”
Making place between the slice of attendance strictly by invitation, we can through the book - more than a book is a bel tomo – where the initial steps Michael Cunningham recite: “Face-It is the tenth volume signed by the photographer in Florence – a person who refuses to confine car, one of the few able to overcome the divisions of the different sections, as a lover of the world in all its aspects.”
Also notable is the contribution of Arnaldo Pomodoro: "The contrast of light and shadow in his portraits, It is an extraordinary quality of vision and expression.”
There is also as previously mentioned by Maniscalchi, journalist and writer GianLuca Try capable of observing the great poetic rhymes to the celebration of the human body: "An ancestral instinct that projecting fragments of an everyday moment in eternity.
of Carla Cavicchini
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