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Bruce Davidson / Zabriskie Point – the faces of America

A new appointment at Spazio Antonioni recounts the meeting on the set of the film Zabriskie Point between the great photographer and one of the fathers of modern cinematography.

Having arrived in the United States in 1968 to portray a country that embodied the essence of his time, Michelangelo Antonioni chose Bruce Davidson as a set photographer on the set of Zabriskie Point: what unites them is the vocation to peer into the folds of reality without preconceptions, giving the gives the observer an enchanted and at the same time aware gaze.
Having joined the legendary Magnum agency in 1958, the American has demonstrated, since his first production, an extraordinary ability to delve into unfamiliar territories, bringing out, even from the most degraded subjects, a moral and aesthetic dignity...

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