{"id":24,"date":"2009-06-18T01:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T23:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photogeisha.org\/wordpress\/?p=24"},"modified":"2017-10-10T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T06:52:37","slug":"sia-la-luce-e-la-luce-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Sia la luce e la luce fu!  Let there be light and there was light!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sia la luce e la luce fu!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>L&#8217;ho\u00a0presa alla\u00a0larga, decisamente troppo alla larga,\u00a0per la modesta\u00a0presentazione\u00a0di\u00a0un\u00a0nuovo blog, di un nuovo gioco, di una nuova avventura sensoriale.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Una falsa partenza in campo creativo, una perfetta navigazione fotografica controcorrente.<\/p>\n<p>Sono convinto che la fotografia stia vivendo un magico e\u00a0lussureggiante\u00a0periodo\u00a0neo-rinascimentale.<br \/>\nLa prepotente invasione tecnologica \u00e8 giunta in soccorso dell&#8217;avidit\u00e0 visiva repressa per tanto, troppo tempo.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;immagine sta acquistando un significato diverso, indipendente dai canoni e dagli stereotipi classici.<br \/>\nCompatte da 150 grammi e cellulari di nuova generazione rappresentano solo la punta dell&#8217; iceberg della percezione visiva.<br \/>\nIn un contesto in cui c&#8217;\u00e8 ancora chi preferisce vivere, fotograficamente parlando, in maniera tradizionale.<\/p>\n<p>Non \u00e8 importante!<br \/>\nRitagliamoci il nostro spazio creativo con i mezzi a noi pi\u00f9 familiari: dal foro stenopeico al dorso da 40 megapixel.<br \/>\nRiappropriamoci del lampo, dell&#8217;idea, della magia con la quale cristallizziamo l&#8217;attimo, regalandolo alla storia.<\/p>\n<p>Ho sognato questo blog come una tabula rasa.\u00a0Un pizzico di ispirazione, qualche pennellata di fantasia, nient&#8217;altro.<br \/>\nIl resto vorrei che lo facessimo insieme.<br \/>\nCommenti, consigli, immagini, capacit\u00e0 di mettersi in discussione. Oh se \u00e8 importante! Oh quanto \u00e8 importante!<\/p>\n<p>Il talento aiuta, il genio fa molto di pi\u00f9, ma &#8211; grazie Luca &#8211; l&#8217;occhio si pu\u00f2 e si deve mettere alla frusta.<br \/>\nPhotogeisha \u00e8 qui per voi, dai problemi pi\u00f9 banali a quelli un po&#8217;\u00a0pi\u00f9\u00a0complicati.<\/p>\n<p>E&#8217;\u00a0stato\u00a0pensato per&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Per coloro che mi chiedono che macchina fotografica uso. <span style=\"color: #722e02;\"><strong>Vi assicuro che non \u00e8 importante.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Per i divoratori di monografie. <span style=\"color: #722e02;\"><strong>A trovarne.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Per i sostenitori del verbo che senza Ansel Adams non esisterebbe la fotografia. <span style=\"color: #722e02;\"><strong>Ma daiiii!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Per quelli che vogliono conoscere il segreto di magiche alchimie. <span style=\"color: #722e02;\"><strong>Non c&#8217;\u00e8 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Per i modesti. <span style=\"color: #722e02;\"><strong>Decisamente troppo pochi.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Per i presuntuosi. <span style=\"color: #722e02;\"><strong>Incredibilmente troppi.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Per i Santi i Navigatori ed i Poeti. <span style=\"color: #722e02;\"><strong>Indispensabili sempre, comunque ed ovunque.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Per le Muse. <span style=\"color: #722e02;\"><strong>Dio quanto le adoro! Coccolatele, sono una fonte inesauribile d&#8217;ispirazione.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Per i vorrei ma non posso. <strong><span style=\"color: #722e02;\">Sono sempre pi\u00f9 convinto del contrario; potrei ma non voglio o pi\u00f9 semplicemente non ho voglia<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Per&#8230;..avanti c&#8217;\u00e8 posto&#8230;to be continued.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #722d03;\">Let there be light and there was light!<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I approached it in a roundabout way, definitely too roundabout, for the humble presentation of a new blog, a new game, a new sensorial adventure.<br \/>\nA false start in a creative field, a perfect photographic voyage sailing against the tide.<\/p>\n<p>I am convinced that photography is going through a magic, luxuriant Neo-Renaissance period.<br \/>\nThe overwhelming technological invasion has come to the aid of visual greed that has been repressed for much, much too long.<\/p>\n<p>The image is taking on a different significance, freed from classical canons and stereotypes.<br \/>\n150-gram digital compacts and new generation cell phones are just the tip of the iceberg in visual perception.<br \/>\nBut there are still those who wish to live traditionally, photographically speaking.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter!<br \/>\nLet\u2019s carve out our own creative niche with the means most familiar to us: from the pinhole camera to the 40 megapixel backs.<br \/>\nLet us take possession again of the creative flash, the idea, the magic with which we freeze the moment, offering it to history.<\/p>\n<p>I dreamed of this blog as a clean slate. A pinch of inspiration, a few brushstrokes of imagination, nothing more.<br \/>\nI\u2019d like for us to do the rest of it together.<br \/>\nComments, suggestions, images, the ability to discuss and question ourselves. It\u2019s important! Oh so important!<\/p>\n<p>Talent helps, genius does way more, but &#8211; thanks Luca &#8211; the eye can and must be tamed and trained.<br \/>\nPhotogeisha is here for you, from the most ordinary to the most complicated problems.<\/p>\n<p>It was conceived for&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>For those who ask me what camera I use.<strong> <span style=\"color: #722d03;\">I can assure you that it\u2019s not important.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those who devour treatises.<span style=\"color: #722d03;\"> <strong>If there are any. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the those who believe that without Ansel Adams there would be no photography. <span style=\"color: #722d03;\"><strong>Oh, come on!!<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For those who want to know the secret of magic alchemies. <span style=\"color: #722d03;\"><strong>There is none <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the modest. <span style=\"color: #722d03;\"><strong>Definitely too few.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the presumptuous. <span style=\"color: #722d03;\"><strong>Way, way too many.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the Saints, the Navigators and the Poets.<span style=\"color: #722d03;\"><strong> Essential, absolutely necessary, always and everywhere. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the Muses, <span style=\"color: #722d03;\"><strong>God how I adore them! Pamper them, they are an inexhaustible source of inspiration.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the \u201cI\u2019d like to but I can\u2019t.\u201d<span style=\"color: #722d03;\"><strong> Every day I\u2019m more convinced of the opposite; I could but I don\u2019t want to, or I just don\u2019t feel like it. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For&#8230;..come on up, there\u2019s plenty of room&#8230;to be continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/wp-content\/uploads\/Da-geisha-a-photogeisha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8307 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/wp-content\/uploads\/Da-geisha-a-photogeisha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/wp-content\/uploads\/Da-geisha-a-photogeisha.jpg 500w, https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/wp-content\/uploads\/Da-geisha-a-photogeisha-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sia la luce e la luce fu! L&#8217;ho\u00a0presa alla\u00a0larga, decisamente troppo alla larga,\u00a0per la modesta\u00a0presentazione\u00a0di\u00a0un\u00a0nuovo blog, di un nuovo gioco, di una nuova avventura sensoriale. Una falsa partenza in campo creativo, una perfetta navigazione fotografica controcorrente. Sono convinto che la fotografia stia vivendo un magico e\u00a0lussureggiante\u00a0periodo\u00a0neo-rinascimentale. La prepotente invasione tecnologica \u00e8 giunta in soccorso dell&#8217;avidit\u00e0&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/?p=24\" class=\"gdlr-button with-border excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[5757,11946,11961,16909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8352,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}