A project for a new research into landscape which hybridizes the boundaries between art, sociology, urban planning and photography...
Today the transition from the first to the
second phase of modernity has called in
question the definition and identity
of landscape itself. A new
generation of photographers finds itself having
to interpret the significance of what is
happening. “Inheriting the landscape”
therefore seeks to be a dialogue and a
debate between generations and languages. The
project grew out of an invitation to
nine authors, who have helped define
the instruments of a new research into landscape
which hybridizes the boundaries between art,
sociology, urban planning and photography.
Each of them was asked to name two more
young photographers, so metaphorically
passing on the torch to them. The outcome is an
overview rich in stimuli which
testifies, between continuity and rupture, to the
possibility of again representing and imagining
the contemporary landscape