It’s just a photograph... but how can it witness a stage action, re-present a performance? Can a photographer with his medium and his specific language translate or reproduce the ‘scenic writing’ (scrittura scenica)? This contribution aims to show the connections between the practice of photography as ‘light´s writing’ and the stage practice as ‘scenic writing’ by de Berardinis, while browsing the visual documents of the Leo de Berardinis Archive in Bologna. His dark stage, framed by light effects, was very hard to film. It can be rightly compared with the photographic process. The scene is almost like a vision that emerges from the night; its inhabitants are spectral presences and the play is a picture that gradually becomes clearer as the representation unfolds. It may be just a dream.
La visione notturna di Leo. Osservazioni dal Fondo fotografico dell'Archivio Leo de Berardinis
MEI S
2019-01-01
Abstract
It’s just a photograph... but how can it witness a stage action, re-present a performance? Can a photographer with his medium and his specific language translate or reproduce the ‘scenic writing’ (scrittura scenica)? This contribution aims to show the connections between the practice of photography as ‘light´s writing’ and the stage practice as ‘scenic writing’ by de Berardinis, while browsing the visual documents of the Leo de Berardinis Archive in Bologna. His dark stage, framed by light effects, was very hard to film. It can be rightly compared with the photographic process. The scene is almost like a vision that emerges from the night; its inhabitants are spectral presences and the play is a picture that gradually becomes clearer as the representation unfolds. It may be just a dream.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
