Introduction a New Journey to Italy
摘要
This passage is from the renowned volume Viaggio in Italia, which was originally published to accompany the eponymous exhibition conceived in the mid-1980s by Pina Belli d’Elia, Luigi Ghirri, Gianni Leone, and Enzo Velati. The collective exhibition is considered one of the foundational moments in contemporary Italian photography, due to the impetus it gave to a renewal of the very idea of the Italian landscape. As Arturo C. Quintavalle writes, questioning the Italian landscape means questioning the very idea of photography; it means interrogating the forms of the image and of representation.