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thoughts and reflections on photography and photographing



Envy and nostalgia at the restaurant and considerations on technological progress.

These considerations arose while I was reading a book on art collecting (the catalog of the exhibition The Pizzi collection, a seventeenth-century picture gallery - FMR editore) and while I was reading a sort of examination on the psychology of the collector, I asked myself: but then, is photography also in a certain sense a form of collecting? And...

It's a simple and direct question, and I would appreciate an equally simple and direct answer, or rather I would appreciate an honest and clean answer. We are talking about photography, only and exclusively photography, so what is your answer? Yes or no?

The best photographic tool that a professional or amateur photographer can have at their disposal is always the same: the most indispensable, the cheapest, the most effective, yet no shop sells it.


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