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Roman portraits
Photography inhabits Western angst and has itself become the dwelling-place of angst, the place where Western man most inequivocally seeks shelter from his fear of nothinggness.
It is man’s extreme rebellion against his mortality.
It is the stone flung in the face of oblivion – and it is heavier and more accurate than the stone of antique portraits.
It is a luminous stone.“Now that we have been sculpted in light we will overcome the darkness of our disappearance”, possessing our own photographic portrait might encourage us to think, although it would be rational to acknowledge that sooner or later even the portrait will disappear. What is certain is that before disappearing our own stones will shine before many eyes and will probably encounter some for whom they shine with particular luminosity, as when the stones preserved in the Musei Capitolini encountered the gaze of Marco Delogu. Through careful observation he has placed stone upon stone, and has given a new and most beautiful form to the life of a few.
Diego Mormorio
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