Volcanoes
of Light
A photographic journey on Sicily's volcanoes
by Marco Fulle |
Italiano
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Languages:
italian and english
Photos: 181 full-color, 56 in full and 5 in double page
Pub. Date: November 2004
Pages: 144
Format: 24 x 22
Price:
15,00 Euro
20,00 Euro (hardcover)
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Summary
| Volcanoes
of Light. A photographic journey on Sicily's volcanoes. 144
pages, 181 color photos, 56 of which in full page and 5 in double
page. The book follows impressions of the last decade of Stromboli's
and Etna's eruptive history via photos (two-four per double
page) and thematic and evocative captions in English and Italian.
The book describes the natural environment and its strong connections
to the people coloring the well-known volcanoes Stromboli, Vulcano,
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Author
| Marco
Fulle, 45 years old, born in Liguria, Italy, is an astronomer
in Trieste since 1988. Always fascinated by night and starry
skies, he discovered in 1989, the night beauty of the active
volcanoes on Stromboli's summit. Since discovering Stromboli,
he has discovered Etna and other volcanoes around the world,
equipped with his faithful mechanical eyes: his photocamera
Nikon F2. His self-portrait is here flanked by an active cone
on Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania. Following his first passions,
in his volcano photographs he instinctively searches for the
lost union between heaven and earth. |
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Introduction
| Volcanoes are living mountains. They grow, they die, they
awaken, they defend themselves. They fight against the cement
which should tame them, burying the cement under lava flows
and ash layers. We instinctively identify these untamable
powers with ancient gods and goddesses of the golden age.
Volcanoes sometimes show a feminine unpredictability and sometimes
they show a male wickedness. Visiting them regularly, year
after year, we have grown with them; aging and changing. Their
growth is quicker than ours however, making unrecognizable
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| familiar landscapes.Marco Fulle has lived these
and other volcanic impressions during the last ten years.
He has climbed the Sicilian volcanoes hundreds of times, each
time, more and more attracted by their unusual language, which
invites him into a contemplation of the volcanoes' thousands
of hidden and unexpected faces. It is worthwhile to enter
into the details of the volcano language; a language made
of light. |
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