Gotham City

Description

The sixty photographs contained in this book were taken over the course of more than a decade by Luca Cam pigotto in New York. They are primarily images borrowed from movies and comic books, visions of the city at night. A Gotham City reconstructed from memory, often infused with a glassy light and an atmosphere at times glowing with vivid colors, other times wrapped in muted hues. A sentimental journey in the Big Apple of our imagination - from the East River bridges to the Empire State Building, from the Guggeheneim Museum to Canal Street, from Times Square to the old docks of Brooklyn, each image looking like the backdrop for scene in a movie.

Luca Campigotto was born in Venice in 1962 and lives between Milan and New York City. After earning a master's degree in modern history with a thesis on the era of great geographical discoveries, he has specialized in the photography of landscapes and architecture linked to the theme of travel. He has conducted research projects on Venice, Rome, Naples, London, New York, Chicago, the route of the Casbahs in Morocco, Angkor in Cambodia, the desert of Atacama in Chile, India, Patagonia, Easter Island, China, Yemen, Iceland, Iran, and Lapland.