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Thoreau
Alessandro Calabrese
Skinner Boox

 

Hardcover
80 pages
150×180 mm
2014
ISBN 978-88-7326-226-8

 

Alessandro Calabrese’s work is the result of an artist residence conducted between 2012 and 2013 in Valle d’Aosta. The series is inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, especially “Walden, Life in the woods”, a manifesto about the relationship between man and nature which has permeated the entire American culture and environmentalist. Calabrese let his gaze wander in the Natural Park of Mont Avic with great freedom, without establishing rigid hierarchies or obsessive projects, but revealing and surprising us with their sophistication and sensitivity. This is also the reason why the work takes the form of a precious little book, to be read and carefully guard second nature, that speaks of nature and set of men, in a progressive succession of reflections on the concepts of wilderness and human settlement.

Alessandro Calabrese was born in Trento, Italy and is currently based in Milan.
www.alessandrocalabrese.info

Skinner Boox is a small independent publishing house focused on contemporary photography.