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Essere
Portraits off stage
"I photographed these actors at the end of their performance.
Before they went back to their dressing room,
after the applause,
just off the stage.
The character slowly and laboriously
back to being a man,
crossed by the most violent and delicate contradictions,
still marked by this passage.
A profound moment that encloses all
the mystery and the miracle of theater."
m.c.
2021
Portraits by Max Cardelli
104 pages, 21 x 25 cm
82 portraits printed on Canson fine-art cotton paper, 220 gsm
Preface printed in Platinum Palladium
on Japanese Mitsumata paper, 27 gsm
Hardcover lined in dark red velvet
Thread Sewn Binding, black painted edges on three cuts,
Leporello on 55 gsm paper,
Book case by Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo
Design by Giusalberto Musciarelli
Printed in Italy by 78pt and the author
Limited edition of 19 copies (1 a.p.) signed by the author
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