Greek Sicily: The Absent Work
Category : Photography Photographs & text: Raymond Escomel 45 photographs Size : 17 x 20 cm/ Hardback 96 pages / Black & white Arnaud Bizalion Éditeur ISBN : 9782369802242 / 27 € Release date : Jun 09, 26 Rights availableIn this photographic series, Raymond Escomel documents the surviving traces of Greek civilization in Sicily, first established there in the eighth century BC. The technique he uses is the waxed-paper negative (calotype), whose undisputed master remains Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884). Escomel accompanies his images with a fictional narrative that, set within the historical context, reimagines a brief and mysterious chapter in the life of the pioneering photographer.
