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“Speaking of her relationship with Naples, Lea Vergine once said that it was the only city without a ghetto. She remarked, ‘Do you think a Neapolitan cares whether you’re Jewish or anything else?’ This nonchalance toward the other—the one by whom we want to be seen, yet who always eludes judgment—is what I find in Anders Petersen’s photographs. A sort of perpetual flight, an ability to speak only in fragments. Yet one can find everything in these fragments: there is irony and sensuality, and a sort of ancient nobility; there is surrender to the artist’s gaze, yes, but never completely. There is trust, however. Trust and defiance always walk hand in hand along these paths, in an indeterminate degree: the subject fixes them each time, or the photographer finds them in that single possible movement that establishes a relationship—that is, the encounter.
L'Artiere Edizioni, 2023
61 pages
20 × 29 cm
ISBN
“Speaking of her relationship with Naples, Lea Vergine once said that it was the only city without a ghetto. She remarked, ‘Do you think a Neapolitan cares whether you’re Jewish or anything else?’ This nonchalance toward the other—the one by whom we want to be seen, yet who always eludes judgment—is what I find in Anders Petersen’s photographs. A sort of perpetual flight, an ability to speak only in fragments. Yet one can find everything in these fragments: there is irony and sensuality, and a sort of ancient nobility; there is surrender to the artist’s gaze, yes, but never completely. There is trust, however. Trust and defiance always walk hand in hand along these paths, in an indeterminate degree: the subject fixes them each time, or the photographer finds them in that single possible movement that establishes a relationship—that is, the encounter.
L'Artiere Edizioni, 2023
61 pages
20 × 29 cm
ISBN
