C'est l'été !

 

Leafing through a photography book is a full sensory experience: the images capture the gaze, while the scent of printed paper envelops and accompanies the slow, intimate pleasure of discovery, page after page.

A collection of images of the most unusual Sicily. Beyond the tourist clichès and mafia imagery. A Sicily that pulses, that vibrates with life.

A surprising living theater.

Highest quality printing - glossy paper – large format cm 24x30 –

100 pages – Limited Edition 1/300 – numbered and signed.

In February 2027 will come out Sicily #8

Photobook, looking in the archive.

 

"Sicily" one © 2017

cm 15x21  -  72 pag. - 200 +20 copies

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Photobook, images of images.

 Unlike other art books, which illustrate and reproduce paintings, sculptures, or installations, photography books possess a unique characteristic: they present the image of what is itself the image. In this way, they emphasize the distinctive nature of photography, namely, that it is something "exactly reproducible."

Of course, the print size or the type of paper may change, but the image itself remains essentially identical. In a certain sense, anyone who owns a photography book can be said to possess the very same image, at least on an emotional level.

Leaving aside the commercial apparatus that surrounds photographic works and is driven by the art market, the emotion of seeing the image remains the most deeply rewarding aspect.

Sicily stripped of exoticism.

 

There’s an intimacy here, but also a certain estrangement: faces half-lit, gestures caught in awkward half-beats, moments that resist narrative closure. Like the work of Moriyama or Petersen he admires, Gurciullo’s images compel not by spectacle, but by their haunted, searching quality. In his Sicily, we don’t find neat stories or postcard vistas; we encounter instead something far more honest — a living, breathing theatre, as restless and fragile as the human heart itself.

(M-Artlens mag, July 2025 )

Memories of Paris

                          © Massimo Gurciullo -Paris, 1982

Gaston Bachelard, nella sua Poetica dello spazio, scriveva che l’immagine poetica autentica non si spiega, risuona. Essa tocca qualcosa di pre-personale in chi la incontra, qualcosa che esisteva prima dell’esperienza individuale. Un’immagine vera non porta un messaggio. Porta una vibrazione. E quella vibrazione trova risposta in corde profonde della coscienza che normalmente rimangono silenti.

"Sicily" by Massimo Gurciullo ,to the glossy , picturesque Sicily that tourist love so much, I prefer the tragic one of the human condition.

Enjoy leafing through Sicily

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"Sicily", the view expands !

 

Sicily Babylon by Massimo Gurciullo

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Memories of Paris

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Archival Pigments Print on CANSON Velin Museum rag.315

Edition 1/6 - cm 18x30 - signed

Euro 1850,00 

Midnight in Paris