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The Passion of Italy

Posted on December 13, 2011

My exhibition in Rome at the Museum of Contemporary Art opened December 3, 2011, and will run through April 29, 2012.   
As part of the exhibition,  I was commissioned to photograph locations all over Italy. 

Here are a few of those pictures:

Rome, Italy

 There is no more magnificent absurdity than Venice. To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, 
but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.
- Alexander Herzen

Rome, Italy

Rome, Italy

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot

Sicily, Italy

Vatican City, Rome, Italy

When you do things from your soul, you feel a
river moving in you, a joy.
― Rumi

Sicily, Italy

Rome, Italy

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
-  Georg Wilhelm

Sicily, Italy

Sicily, Italy

Rome, Italy

Whether you say Gioia di Vivere in Italian, or Joie de Vivre in French, or other expressions which
attempt to capture a passion for life,   you know the difficulty
of expressing the intangible in words.  I hope these pictures reflect the vibrant joy of life in Italy.

Rome, Italy

Rome, Italy

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
― Mark Twain

Rome, Italy

My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss.
-  Sir Edward Dyer

Rome, ItalyRome, Italy

Rome, Italy

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. 
- John Keats

Venice, Italy

Nothing in the world that you ever heard of Venice, is equal to the
magnificent and stupendous reality.
- Charles Dickens


 

Media:

http://www.vogue.it/en/people-are-talking-about/art-photo-design/2011/12/steve-mccurry

http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/tg5/tg5_la_lettura/265739/steve-mccurry.html

 


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