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Choreography

出版	Superheated Edition, 2017
ISBN	30330637219783033063723
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tfh6tgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The warm yellows of the street lights and advertising signs in the centre of the photograph vie with the flickering neon sign inviting the public into the Raymond Revuebar. In the narrow alley below the bar there are the darkly blurred silhouettes of individuals succumbing to the seductive appeal of the big city at night. What may be going on behind the small, barred windows is anyone's guess. In another photograph the nearby Taboo Revue strip club gleams palely in the pitch black darkness. And in rain-soaked Wardour Street there is the yellow-orange glow of a famous music venue, the Marquee Club. A car is parked outside it, the door to the club seems to be open - a blues or rock concert could be about to begin. These atmospheric images, all from Romeo Vendrame's cycle Choreography (ongoing since 2014), are based on photographs that he took in London in the 1970s. Besides the sights of Soho at night the series also includes landmark buildings such as Westminster Palace, contemporary architecture that appealed to the photographer, and street scenes in Brixton and around Piccadilly Circus. However, the photographs from the 1970s were only the starting point for a new process of artistic production; inspired by Graham Greene's espionage novel The Human Factor (1978), in spring 2014 Vendrame revisited his old slides. He put them into a slide projector in his studio, adding filters and other translucent materials, and took shots (sometimes multiple shots) of the resulting images. He thus recast his images from the 1970s in an entirely new 'choreography'. These photographs contain traces both of the lights of London forty years ago and the flickering light of the slide projector in Vendrame's studio in Zurich over the last three years. And it is the complexity of these 'technological byways that creates the magic' of these photographs. -- from: https://romeovendrame.com/assets/files/Romeo-Vendrame_Valtorta_Engl.pdf.