In Rome at night.
backlight| N° d'inventaire | 32577 |
| Format | 22.2 x 31.5 |
| Détails | 96 p., numerous color photographs, publisher's hardcover |
| Publication | Biarritz, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
In 1974, Hervé Gloaguen, a member of the prestigious Viva agency, was one of the few French photographers to express himself in color, while most of his colleagues used black and white in the humanist tradition. During a trip to Italy, which he traveled from north to south with his wife and daughter, he stopped in Rome and parked his Volkswagen camper van on a hill overlooking the city.
Always striving to be as close as possible to his subject, he attempts to capture the sensuality that seizes young people around fountains, café terraces, and restaurants. He immediately has the intuition that he must capture the mysteries of nightlife and its artificial lights. Initially taking his photographs on negative film, he quickly switched to slides, taking advantage of the generous support of Kodak, which then offered film to professional photographers and agencies.
Between 1974 and 1995, he made five month-long trips. He mingled with the crowds, merging into them as dusk fell, and thus enjoying the pleasure the city offered to a young man seeking encounters. Rome has so much to offer to those who understand and experience it.
How can one not be struck, seized by these images shown for the first time, extremely modern in their simplicity and their artistic and technical skill, images whose framing tells the story of the complicity between the photographer and those he photographs. In any case, it is a new look at a city so often recounted by cinema, music, literature and photography, undoubtedly making us regret those beautiful years still spared by mass tourism and smartphones everywhere.
In 1974, Hervé Gloaguen, a member of the prestigious Viva agency, was one of the few French photographers to express himself in color, while most of his colleagues used black and white in the humanist tradition. During a trip to Italy, which he traveled from north to south with his wife and daughter, he stopped in Rome and parked his Volkswagen camper van on a hill overlooking the city.
Always striving to be as close as possible to his subject, he attempts to capture the sensuality that seizes young people around fountains, café terraces, and restaurants. He immediately has the intuition that he must capture the mysteries of nightlife and its artificial lights. Initially taking his photographs on negative film, he quickly switched to slides, taking advantage of the generous support of Kodak, which then offered film to professional photographers and agencies.
Between 1974 and 1995, he made five month-long trips. He mingled with the crowds, merging into them as dusk fell, and thus enjoying the pleasure the city offered to a young man seeking encounters. Rome has so much to offer to those who understand and experience it.
How can one not be struck, seized by these images shown for the first time, extremely modern in their simplicity and their artistic and technical skill, images whose framing tells the story of the complicity between the photographer and those he photographs. In any case, it is a new look at a city so often recounted by cinema, music, literature and photography, undoubtedly making us regret those beautiful years still spared by mass tourism and smartphones everywhere.