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A proposito di casa
Cristina Comparato

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Writings by Cristina Comparato

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“A proposito di casa” revisits the archive of Apulian photographer Cristina Comparato, tracing her gaze and lines of inquiry. The volume presents a selection of analog images—both black-and-white and color—that engage with the central themes of her research and wanderings: the landscape, small towns, her native coastline, and the beloved Apennines. In the years preceding her untimely death, Comparato experimented tirelessly with film and a range of formats, favoring the Hasselblad, while reflecting on the relationship between memory and the perception of place, as well as on the very meaning of “home.” What emerges is a disenchanted, almost literary, and deeply empathetic perspective, turned toward an Italy that struggles to align with the semantics of progress: frank, melancholic, rugged yet generous, composed of open horizons, uncultivated lands, fragments of places, and poetic glimpses.The volume is enriched by excerpts from her diaries and by a poem dedicated to the ferula, a cherished flower.

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First edition, 2026
300 copies
16,5 x 18 cm
66 pages
Offset printing
Hardcover
Italian, English
ISBN: 978-88-8435-619-2
In collaboration with Antiga Edizioni