Michael Roberts
Subtitle: Shot in Sicily
Contributors: Manolo Blahnik (Epilogue); Michael Roberts (Photographer)
Publisher: Edition 7L
Published: July 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9783865214485
Subjects: Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; Individual Photographer; Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Europe; Photography / Individual Photographer; Photography; Photo Techniques
Description: Michael Roberts' rich view of Sicily - its people, traditions, and landscape - permeates his photographic work far beyond his well-known work in the fashion world. Spanning two decades, Shot in Sicily traces Roberts' shifting vision of a sensual and ambiguous country. With an occasional nod to Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden's late nineteenth-century images of the Sicilian town of Taormina, and the films of Visconti and Bolognini, Roberts' sense of Sicily moves beyond conventional and touristic aesthetic categories. His camera captures the beauty of youth, crumbling temples, traditional Easter parades and the theater of daily life, and genuinely recreates the allure of Sicily.