Indian Stills
INDIAN STILLS recall a world of silence, imperturbable solemnity; speak of a inner
strength that transcends time and comes down to us from the depths of history, that
few outward signs (certain shapes, for example, certain specific highlighted) may
attemp to reveal.
But are the characters of these photographs, that want to miss any conditioning
time, and they observed by the remoteness of a civilization that gave them the traits,
signs, the bearing of a culture that escapes us, anchored as is the inner rhythms of
the soul, to deny our superficiality, our economic adventure that has all changed.
The models pose are attributable to a few choices: standing pose and shooting in a
everyday environments , often in courtyards, against brick walls without plaster or
portraits, faces close, with pride and seriousness are proposed to explain a story,
without that folklore, which often transforms many portraits in tourist postcards.
I wants to enter the observer in a civilization, ancient at least as ours, wants through
the silence of immobility and the static pose propose that reveal the sense of an
ancient culture that escapes the dogmas of the so-called modernity. Our modernity
certainly is already entered, but these INDIANS STILLS we introduce in a dimension
that scan the centuries through the faces, poses, the calmness of attitudes, tries to
discole the quiet grandeur of a dimension of life.
Indian stills is a selection of therthy pictures, manly portraits, shoothed on a
Polaroid BW 9x12 during journey through india, and now printed on 50 x 60 cm
photo rag weight paper.
Carlo Bevilacqua
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Cycle Vala

Dwarf
Rajput

Indian Girl

Dalit Woman

Dalit Woman

Hawa Mahal
(Palazzo Dei
Venti) Jaipur

Mahatma

Jaisalmer
Woman in her
Haveli

Indian Women
with Child in a
Bricks Factory

Five Standing
Indian Children

A Pushkar
Sâdhu

Jaisalmer
The Golden
City

Indian Woman

Amrait Bazar

Ganja Smoker

Holy Cow
Pushkar

Vivaha -
Indian
Bridegroom
waiting for the
Bride

Peackocs
Door

Mahatma

Indian Woman
in a Bricks
Factory

Rajput