The photographic plates are taken from a corpus of about one hundred black and white negatives realised during the “voyage” and printed by the author in 1995 in a single copy, on 100x80 cm, 90x80 cm and 0 80 cm format, on silver halide crystal Baryta papers with selenium and gold toning.
The thirty vintage prints convey the interaction between the mountain scenery and the photographic culture. The lights of the space of the Mont Blanc mountain range – captured in the silver halide crystals of the wide film base sheets – transmute, through the luminous projection of a technological instrument such as the enlarger, into signs, indicators and tonal imprints of a high formal and semantic value. In other words, the darkroom, designated for the material processes of the iconographic elaboration, was the place where the metamorphosis was complete: the essence of Mont Blanc is now totally nature, space, photographic expression.
The thirty vintage prints convey the interaction between the mountain scenery and the photographic culture. The lights of the space of the Mont Blanc mountain range – captured in the silver halide crystals of the wide film base sheets – transmute, through the luminous projection of a technological instrument such as the enlarger, into signs, indicators and tonal imprints of a high formal and semantic value. In other words, the darkroom, designated for the material processes of the iconographic elaboration, was the place where the metamorphosis was complete: the essence of Mont Blanc is now totally nature, space, photographic expression.