Research Catalog

Title

Short stories / Paolo Ventura.

Author

Ventura, Paolo, 1968-

Publication

• New York Aperture, 2016.
• ©2016.

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Details

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly colour illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

Paolo Ventura's Short Stories are whimsical narratives told through pictures--tales of love, war, and family--where things magically appear or disappear, set in an imaginary past of World War II Italy. Much like in silent films, the drama unfolds with no words or captions. For these works, Ventura constructed life-sized sets, in which he situated himself and members of his family (casting his son, wife, and twin brother as actors), in stories that are at once charming and disquieting. While seemingly simple, Ventura's vignettes come with larger implications: brothers who encounter each other by surprise on the battlefield, jugglers who appear from above, a man who packs himself into his suitcase, a small-town magician who accidently makes his son disappear for real, and many others. Here, Ventura has built a world of realistic proportions and actors, in fantastical tales and against painted backdrops--challenging notions of what is real and what is make-believe.

Subject

• Ventura, Paolo, 1968-
• Staged photography
• Photography, Artistic
• Italy > History > Fiction
• Italy

Genre/Form

• Stories without words.
• Short stories.
• Fiction.
• History.

Call Number

JQG 17-344

ISBN

• 9781597113724
• 1597113727

OCLC

967496434

Author

Ventura, Paolo, 1968- photographer.

Title

Short stories / Paolo Ventura.

Publisher

New York Aperture, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

STAGED PHOTOGRAPHS IN COLOR. PORTRAITS WITH PAINTED BACKDROPS.

Research Call Number

JQG 17-344