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The beautiful West
Among the hot-air balloons in the sky over Albuquerque
Every year at Albuquerque, in New Mexico, they hold the world’s biggest hot-air balloon meeting: the “Balloon Fiesta”.The artist Madeleine Gehrig has taken these extraordinary photos from one of the balloons for Bridge Puglia USA.
The festival, which lasts several days, began in 1972 as the main event in the fiftieth birthday celebrations for 770 Kob Radio. Up to 600 balloons can take part and each day there are over 100,000 spectators at the launch sites, not counting the people gathered at the landing zones and all over Albuquerque January 2015
Branding, castrating and tagging. Images of the rough, old-fashioned work of cowboys
A day at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Cerillos (New Mexico).Through the careful lens of Madeleine Gehrig, the crucial details of the cowboys' work during the process of branding, castrating and tagging the herds July 2013
My America on the road
Asphalt, desert, old cars, a dog resting in a rusty truck and the ever-changing, always immense skies of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and California.No American dream and glossy images but a highly evocative, solitary, wild and luminous America in the photo reportage by Lauren Berley June 2012
Cowboys, cowgirls and horses A voyage into today’s world of the Western
The photo reportage by Lauren Berley reawakens the collective imagination about the trades that used to be typical of the American West.“In a politically and religiously conflicted modern world – affirms the photographer – we are overrun with web and HD images of conflict, confusion and fear. Seldom are we given the chance to truly experience the tactile aspects of technology-proof tradition. Making a custom rope to sort a calf on the range, tie him down, and lance an abscess on a calf’s eye... These are the traditions that are passed across multiple generations. And there is an overwhelming sense of pride and love, even in the most modest of ranch households” April 2012
A special sunset on the hills of New Mexico
The ashes of a fire rarefied in the sky, on the desert hills of New Mexico, were, for artist Madeleine Gehrig, the starting-point for realising, through her camera lens, an interpretation of the oniric, graphic, magical... September 2011
Spring in New Mexico amidst flowers and stone
Madeleine Gehrig’s magic images catch details of nature’s rare beauty in Santa Fe County. Graphic etchings in the rock, skies of deep blue, small bushes and incredible blossom… May 2011
Forests of New Mexico Symphony of colors
A nature trip in the Santa Fe County through the lens of Madeleine Gehrig. From the triumph of the warm hues of Fall to the shy step of the first frosts and the candid heart of winter. Panoramas and details of rare beauty… April 2011New York - New York
That magnificent experiment of humanity called New York
by Piero Armenti The tale of an Italian in New York.Originally from Bari and Salerno, after finishing his studies and living in various foreign countries, he moved to the Big Apple where he successfully set up “il mio viaggio a New York” (my trip to New York), a business offering original tours of the city.
“I think New York is the homeland of every emigrant. Here everything can be transformed into a fantastic experience... between a dream and reality” November 2016
Snow in Brooklyn
Unlike the usual image of the tourists' New York, Christina Figueroa, in 21 pictures, shows the poetry of Brooklyn in the snow.Whitened front doors, the charming streets of brownstone houses, scenes of daily life in the city covered in snow.
And Prospect Park transformed into a ski slope for adults and children February 2016
From Bari to New York City The story of Laura and her violin
After her musical training in Bari, in the footsteps of the great Masters of the past, Laura Giannini found a fertile terrain for her professional development abroad.“This city gives me the chance to meet and play with world-famous musicians” November 2015
That “city of dreams”, in Puglia…
by Giovanni De Benedictis Paola Bernardini, born in Barletta and a New Yorker by adoption, talks about her first short film, the winner of many awards, filmed entirely in Puglia.“We feel let down by the fantasies that don’t come true. But with these disappointments you learn and grow” November 2015
New York The architecture of the collective imagination
In his photo feature dedicated to New York, Giovanni Ferente aims his lens at the magnificent architectural lines of the city that section the sky, integrating it with the urban landscape.Having taken the snaps at various times of the day and night offers an intaglio of skies, skyscrapers and bridges a range of colors and moods July 2014
Images of New York
The city as told in the pictures taken by Christina Figueroa.A few “classics”: from the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State Building, From Central Park to Brooklyn Bridge. And a medley of murals shot in Red Hook (Brooklyn), at one time New York’s biggest freight dock and now the new stronghold of young artists.
“The murals you see in Red Hook –says Figueroa – are artistic, political and poetic” June 2014
The Statue of Liberty How Emma’s sonnet immortalized the “Mother of Exiles”
by Joseph Tusiani We are very pleased to publish one of the letters due to appear in a volume soon to be published: Saluti da New York (Greetings from New York) by Joseph Tusiani, edited by Antonio Motta, Centro Documentazione Leonardo Sciascia, series “Vele” 2, San Marco in Lamis July 2011
Times Square the city that never sleeps
by Joseph Tusiani Broadway’s theater zone stuns you with its cascading neon signs and its multiethnic crowd. The area of luxury apartment buildings around Central Park South, in the midst of millionaires and homeless people May 2011