“One has only to walk the streets and keep one's eyes open to see the most inimitable pictures.” (Goethe in Naples, March, 1787). On various travels from the north to the south down to the tip of the boot, photographer Bernhard C. Hartmann endeavored, as described in the Goethe quote, to capture scenarios of Italian life. Against the backdrop of a turbulent history, the country's cultural importance as well as its social and political contradictions, he roamed the land in search of special moments and constellations. The author only reveals information that is necessary. He wants the viewer to "decrypt" the scenarios all alone by consciously looking at them.
Scenario Italiano is a photographic essay, a book for everyone who have not embarked on their on summer journey yet and appearing on time for the season at publishing company seltmann+söhne. The exhibition accompanying the book is on display from 20 September thru the end of October in Detmold.
Bernhard C. Hartmann 'Scenario Italiano' (seltmann+söhne, 39,00 €, 30 × 24 cm, 128 pages, hardcover, English, German, Italian, ISBN 978-3-946688-38-9)