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L'Artiere Im showing you how big the sky is The story of Chiou Taur Wu told by Martina Bacigalupo
I'm showing how big the sky is is a tribute by Martina Bacigalupo to her former nanny Chiou Taur Wu, a Taiwanese woman who lived for more than three decades in Italy. Battered by life from a childhood spent in the fields of the south of the country to working in a factory in Taipei, while still a teenager, to the gambling debts of her Italian husband which forced her to work day and night Chiou Taur don't let yourself be defeated. Returning to Taiwan at almost 70 years old, she decides to take her revenge on life and do everything she was unable to do before: she resumes her studies, enrolls in ballroom dance classes , and begins to travel. Through hundreds of photos received from Chiou during ten years of correspondence, the Italian photographer offers us the story of extraordinary resilience. Told in the first person, with images and words by Chiou, this book, published by L'Artiere Editions, is a song of freedom, full of humor and poetry. Martina Bacigalupo, born in Genoa in
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L'Artiere Napoli: Anders Petersen
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L'Artiere Binidittu
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L'Artiere To Be
When I was 17, my older sister Susan let me photograph her. I was amazed at how her newly prominent veins and capillaries defined her pregnant body as they raced down her arms and across her abdomen and breasts. I felt I could almost see the growing child through her pale skin. ?Around the turn of the millennium, it was as though I was surrounded by women colleagues, family, friends who were expecting, and I felt an urgency to photograph them.Perhaps the urgency I felt had to do with knowing their pregnancy was limited to nine or so months. To photograph a woman before she gives birth, a loved one before they die, the sunlight before it fades and grows dark are all a motivation, and expression of the life force. Inspired by altar paintings from the Italian Renaissance, I used my 7x17 panoramic camerafor standing portraits. When I realized my subjects sometimes had trouble balancing, I also made horizontals, with the recumbent portraits of Francisco de Goya'sNaked Maja,Edouard Man
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L'artiere Another America
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L'Artiere Cousins
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