The unarmed hunter

It's a book about Italian publisher and typographer Enrico Tallone. (In March 2017, on the occasion of Alexander Goren's donation of an almost complete collection of books printed by the Tallones to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University Libraries, it was presented a symposium titled: "Alberto Tallone Editore perpetuating the tradition of excellence of the Aldine press and Bodoni"). What I tried to do with these images, is to make the "reader" feel bathed in the light of the "atelier", and lead him into the park. Moreover my goal is to express the quiet, the tranquillity that you can breathe as you cross the gate. I met Enrico (that now, with the family, carries on the activity of his father Alberto) by chance for a "typical" photo shoot. But now I'm here not to show the work of an artist with a documentary slant... The choice to shoot the last images with a digital camera instead of traditional film, is due to the greater versatility of digital cameras. That allowed me to find the way to express as well as possible, for every single picture, what I have in mind, even at the risk of being confused or incoherent. And last, but not least, the razor edge sharpness of digital help me to reproduce the types at best... The title of the book is referred to a recurring phrase of Enrico Tallone: "Shot are made of the same alloy of the type"... Also, he is a collector of types and everything that concern typography: therefore an hunter... IMPORTANT: The book is divided into three parts: in the first I've shot with 35mm film, in the second and third with digital camera. (For many reasons the work took a very long time to see the end because of a break of twenty-four years.) This project is almost concluded: it takes only five or six photos, some of them are portraits.