Martino Nicoletti eBooks
eBooks di Martino Nicoletti Fotografia e fotografi
Kathmandu. Lessons of darkness. E-book. Formato PDF Martino Nicoletti - Mimesis International, 2016 -
Kathmandu. Lessons of darkness. E-book. Formato PDF - Mimesis International
Kathmandu: Lessons of Darkness. E-book. Formato PDF Martino Nicoletti - Mimesis International, 2015 -
This unique work offers the reader a poetic depiction of the abyssal Himalayan city of Kathmandu:the mythical sword-shaped sacred city of divine origin set among the shining mountains of the Himalayas;the open-air mandala studded by golden-roofed temples; the cradle and melting pot of millenary civilisation and spiritual tradition; the mesmerising destination for generations of flower children and “dharma bums”; Asia’s present-day dirty, derelict and broken mirror…Kathmandu.A visionary katabasis, this book, enriched by a wide selection of artistic B&W photos, leads the reader through the mazes of this remote location, simultaneously a real venue, a sacred land and an inviolate recess of the soul: sharp shadows and piercing shouts mingle with bursts of overwhelming light and tremendous beauty.Kathmandu, Lessons of Darkness: the ultimate, vivid portrait of the world that existed prior to the terrible earthquake on April 2015, which turned it into debris and dust...
The Snowy Snap: The Story of Chaturman Rai, Himalayan Folk-photographer and Film-maker. E-book. Formato EPUB Martino Nicoletti - Mimesis International, 2015 -
In a remote village of eastern Nepal, lacking electricity and any other facilities, Chaturman, a farmer belonging to the Kulung Rai ethnic group, has for many years cultivated an original passion: photography.Chaturman fell in love with this art in his youth, as a result of a fortuitous encounter with travelling photographers, enigmatic characters who, until recently, used to wander through the remotest villages of Nepal working as “nomadic”professional portraitists. Despite the acrobatic split needed between his work as a farmer, herdsman, porter and father of a family, Chaturman, wholly selftrained, developed his passion tenaciously, also thanks to his simple and rudimentary equipment: an old-fashioned plastic “Made-in-China” camera and a few blackand-white films purchased and processed at a shop three days’ walk from his village.This work – created by the author over a timespan of about twenty years, thanks to a close personal friendship with Chaturman –, enriched by a wide selection of images, retraces the main steps in his multifaceted and highly experimental activity from the very beginning up to his later work as a documentary filmmaker. Through the life and artistic work of Chaturman, this book provides a glimpse of one of the most original and moving true stories fromthis distant and seductive corner of Asia.