© Roberto Alborghetti The torn advertising posters that we see on the outdoor billboards – which are among the subjects of my “Lacer/actions” project – lend themselves to being cataloged and sorted according to various types. One is related to the broken words, that is the composition of random letters due to the overlapping of… Read More BROKEN WORDS #1 / TORN PUBLICITY POSTERS ON OUTDOOR BILLBOARDS
© Roberto Alborghetti What you see in this photogallery are not collages built and created deliberately with my hands, joining and sticking piece by piece, but photos of real and random torn publicity posters I saw on an outdoor billboard. They are the result of various and different overlaps – which took place over weeks… Read More THE RANDOM SHOW OF PAPER OVERLAPS ON OUTDOOR BILLBOARDS #4
Alongside the photographs of corroded and defaced advertising posters, cracks, scratches, lacerations and urban decompositions, I started taking close-up photos of an element that represents the maximum expression of material mutation. That is: the ice. I think the world of ice is fascinating. Its transformation process – from water to a solid, frozen crust –… Read More THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ICE: JOURNEY INTO THE COLDEST MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY #5
Already a decade ago, alongside the photographs of corroded and defaced advertising posters, cracks, scratches, lacerations and urban decompositions, I started taking close-up photos of an element that represents the maximum expression of material mutation. That is: the ice. I think the world of ice is fascinating. Its transformation process – from water to a… Read More THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ICE: JOURNEY INTO THE COLDEST MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY #4
Today is a great and special day for the United States of America (and for the world). The inauguration of new President Joe Biden marks, hopefully, a new beginning after a controversial and dark period. Yes, we need color and light! And just today – a coincidence? – here is the special preview of the… Read More PREVIEW / THE JBC COLLECTION WITH MY MACRO PHOTOS: A SIGN OF REBIRTH
Already a decade ago, alongside the photographs of corroded and defaced advertising posters, cracks, scratches, lacerations and urban decompositions, I started taking close-up photos of an element that represents the maximum expression of material mutation. That is: the ice. I think the world of ice is fascinating. Its transformation process – from water to a… Read More THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ICE: JOURNEY INTO THE COLDEST MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY #3
Already a decade ago, alongside the photographs of corroded and defaced advertising posters, cracks, scratches, lacerations and urban decompositions, I started taking close-up photos of an element that represents the maximum expression of material mutation. That is: the ice. I think the world of ice is fascinating. Its transformation process – from water to a… Read More THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ICE: JOURNEY INTO THE COLDEST MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY #2
Already a decade ago, alongside the photographs of corroded and defaced advertising posters, cracks, scratches, lacerations and urban decompositions, I started taking close-up photos of an element that represents the maximum expression of material mutation. That is: the ice. I think the world of ice is fascinating. Its transformation process – from water to a… Read More THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ICE: JOURNEY INTO THE COLDEST MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY #1
Sixty seconds to remember the Italian Day of Liberation (April 25) from nazi-fascism and as tribute of hope to Italy in the days of covid-19 . My abstract and visual works – they’re macro photos of ripped and decomposed publicity posters on outdoor billboards – for a chromo and musical experience remembering April 25, 1945…… Read More TOP VIDEO 2020 AT MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL: “FOR ITALY, PER L’ITALIA”
I made this video for my “Lacer/actions” project and research. It is part of a project concerning the Four Seasons “, seen and told through my street macro photographs of the torn and decomposed advertising posters. The first video is dedicated to Winter. The soundtrack by Antonio Vivaldi is inevitable: the track is the famous… Read More VIVALDI’S WINTER AND 31 STREET MACRO PHOTOGRAPHS
“Dark night /Snowflakes and frost / Before the New Day”: an “Haiku” to spread my Season’s Greetings throught an experience of visual art that fuses macro photography, words and music. The text wants to express with the language of the Haiku the difficulties of the present moment we are experiencing (dark night, frost and snow)… Read More “DARK NIGHT / SNOWFLAKES AND FROST / BEFORE THE NEW DAY”
The rose is a flower that can have a considerable temporal duration. Even in these days at the end of the year it is easy to see our gardens colored with this flower, to which I have dedicated space and attention with a series of posts. In the photogallery, here are some pictures of the… Read More PHOTOGRAPHS ON THE FLOWERS: THE LAST ROSES OF 2020
“The Tree Of Life” is a macro photo on aluminum, made for my “Lacer/actions” project-research about realistic and not manipulated images of torn and decomposed publicity posters, natural cracks and urban “signs”. The image is a magnification of cracks on a waste-container placed in Amsterdam near the Royal Palace (2012). Thanks to a sophisticated technological… Read More MACRO PHOTOGRAPH ON ALUMINUM PLATE: THE TREE OF LIFE
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