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4. AUTOPROIEZIONE<br />

La Via Appia Antica, regina delle strade consolari,<br />

che da Roma conduce a Brindisi, apriva la<br />

strada all’Oriente. È stata conservata, nel suo<br />

tratto urbano, come parco archeologico. Oggi,<br />

quando la si percorre in automobile, il sobbalzare<br />

sui basalti della strada riproduce l’andamento<br />

a sbalzi di un carro nei tempi antichi.<br />

Lungo i lati della strada ci sono ruderi di<br />

tombe imponenti costruite dai ricchi, mentre i<br />

resti della gente comune venivano stipati in<br />

catacombe che pure si trovano qui, perché<br />

nella Roma antica si seppellivano i morti fuori<br />

città, proprio come si fa oggi.<br />

Su questo atmosferico paesaggio con ruderi,<br />

che richiama i dipinti di Yves Tanguy, il fotografo<br />

ha proiettato la sua ombra, per accentuare<br />

l’effetto surrealista.<br />

Roma, 1950<br />

20<br />

SELF PROJECTION<br />

The Via Appia Antica, Queen of Highways, which<br />

goes from Rome to Brindisi, paved the imperial<br />

way to the East. It has been preserved in its urban<br />

stretch as an archeological park and when<br />

negotiated today in a car the bumping over the<br />

basalt blocks of the roadbed reproduces what it<br />

was like to jolt along in a c<strong>art</strong> in ancient times.<br />

The road is lined with the ruins of the imposing<br />

tombs built by the wealthy, while the<br />

commonality were crowded into the catacombs<br />

that also lie here, as burials in ancient Rome took<br />

place outside the city limits, just as they do today.<br />

On this atmospheric landscape with ruins,<br />

recalling the paintings of Yves Tanguy, the<br />

photographer projected his shadow, to add to the<br />

surrealistic effect.<br />

Rome, 1950

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