snapsights – Paolo Beccari https://www.paolobeccari.com Photographic signs of time Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:41:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.paolobeccari.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cropped-paolobeccari_logo-32x32.png snapsights – Paolo Beccari https://www.paolobeccari.com 32 32 Milano – spaces https://www.paolobeccari.com/blog/2013/08/30/milano-spaces/ Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:00:36 +0000 https://www.paolobeccari.com/wp/?p=1530 Milano-Snapsight#1A dark sky instead of the top of the tunnel
and the muggy air at the Metro station
becomes a fresh breeze in this perennial night.

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Queensboro Bridge https://www.paolobeccari.com/blog/2013/08/30/queensboro-bridge/ Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:16:13 +0000 https://www.paolobeccari.com/wp/?p=1522 Continue reading...Queensboro Bridge

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NY_Snapsight#7

NY City – The Queensboro bridge in the afternoon.

When approaching the bridge it almost seems impossible to pass through that steely forest.
Once onto I felt like being in a thick branched wood,  made of very tidy branches.

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Hidden cities 3 https://www.paolobeccari.com/blog/2013/08/20/hidden-cities-3/ Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:36:54 +0000 https://www.paolobeccari.com/wp/?p=351 Continue reading...Hidden cities 3

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Citta_nascoste_3[…] if you move along Marozia’s compact walls, when you least expect it, you see a crack open and a different city appear.  Then, an instant later, it has already vanished.

Italo Calvino – Invisible cities

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Resistance https://www.paolobeccari.com/blog/2012/11/19/united-we-stand/ Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:21:49 +0000 https://www.paolobeccari.com/wp/?p=589 Continue reading...Resistance

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NY_Snapsight#6

It happens,
you walk alone on your way deeply swimming in the stream of your own thought.
But raising your eyes you read a harmless sign
and you suddenly would like to do the opposite.

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Trading Cities 4 https://www.paolobeccari.com/blog/2012/09/02/trading-cities-4-2/ Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:10:26 +0000 https://www.paolobeccari.com/wp/?p=1202 Continue reading...Trading Cities 4

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Citta_invisibiliIn Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationdhip of blood, of trade, authority, agency.

Italo Calvino – Invisible cities

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Exit Strategy https://www.paolobeccari.com/blog/2012/08/26/exit-strategy-2/ Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:28:27 +0000 https://www.paolobeccari.com/wp/?p=248 Continue reading...Exit Strategy

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Exit strategy

Exit strategy is the development of a system capable of leaving behind a situation which has become complicated, dangerous, negative.
Trying to minimize losses.

In order to leave the vision of the world which has walked us by the hand opon this thin layer of ice, perhaps we need to overturn our point of view.

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Hello, world! https://www.paolobeccari.com/blog/2011/02/16/hello-world-2/ Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:12:08 +0000 http://paolobeccari.wordpress.com/?p=1 Continue reading...Hello, world!

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Hello World, 2011 - Durst print on plexi-aluminium - ed. of sevenWalking on the stage of Manhattan’s streets, September led me to chose a NY taxi as a shelter from the rain.
Suddenly down from that stage, I could see an entire world on the sidewalks, from my favorable position in the orchestra pit.

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