Photo series 'Firenze' by Augusto De Luca

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Augusto De Luca studied law and became a professional photographer in the mid-1970s, working along the boundary between traditional and experimental photography. With his style, he moves through several photography genres.

He uses many materials and always tries to enhance primary elements with his photographs. Using minimal expressive units, he tries to create images in which forms and signs are combined in a way that recalls metaphysical atmospheres.

His photographs have been exhibited by many galleries.

Augusto De Luca is the author of record covers, advertising campaign images and photography books. He taught photography at the "Montecitorio Club" of the Italian parliament.

Light and techniques are constantly improving, but the shadow disappears, giving the image its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive qualities.

I believe that dedication and technical skills can be achieved by everyone through their own will and study. Imagination and passion, on the other hand, are actually more valuable because they are innate and therefore unavoidable special assets.

Emotion seeps through all his photographs, through the relationship he establishes with the place he portrays. Whenever he sees something that fascinates him, he starts moving around it to find his own frame. He works on himself and on the city at the same time.

He needs geometry to establish the grammar of the image-expressive language.

The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout offer a perspective from which the image can be read. Otherwise, we would do what the Dadaists did when they put words in a bag and then drew them out at random to compose a poem.

A budding human being has always inhabited his deeper self. Creativity has always been his companion. He has tried to express himself in a very particular style, but through all kinds of materials and formats. His desire is to discover how his own creativity unfolds under different circumstances ...

He feels like a sailor, or rather, an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is an explorer looking for the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings. Art is the place where rationality, imagination, truth and fiction mingle in an explosive mixture.

Great photography comes about at the right moment, but it also needs the right cut to enhance that precise moment. Photography must draw on both content and form. If it gives up one for the other, it will not last long.

He has several souls, which emerge month after month, year after year. He is a photographer as well as a performer, lawyer, collector and musician. He is all of these things. He throws nothing away. He simply allows his various souls to come to the surface in turn.

If you take photographs for the sake of other people, your true essence will never come out. In the end, you will only do things that others have been doing for a long time.

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