Le Pont Neuf

The Pont Neuf (New Bridge) is the oldest surviving bridge in Paris. It crosses the Seine at the height of the Île de la Cité.
In 1985, U.S. artist Christo completely wrapped the bridge in paper, leaving it “packed” for 15 hours. In 1991, director LEOS CARAX made the film “Les Amants du Pont-Neuf,” famous for its troubled production and extremely high production costs that made it the most expensive film in French cinema at the time.

Digital file obtained by double exposure in shoting.

Limited Edition /5 on demand different sizes :

80 x120 format, exterior 81,2 x121,2  € 1750

60 x  90 format, exterior 61.2 x 91.2   € 1500

50 x  75 format, exterior 51.2 x 76.2   € 1250

Two types of printing can be chosen:

on acrylic glass, aluminum ArtBox frame, 25 or 50 mm;

or on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, mounted on aluminum dibond, aluminum ArtBox frame, 25 or 50 mm.

Format 10×15 limited edition /30 on demand, printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta unframed, no. 1 € 100; no. 3  different Parisian subjects € 200; no. 5  different Parisian subjects € 300.

Italian taxes and shipping to Europe included.

Any customs charges are the responsibility of the buyer

Looking through the endless menu of my Fuji X100 F, I found the possibility of double exposures. Many years before, in the early 1980s, the film drag malfunction, I had unwittingly obtained superimposed frames. At first I was disappointed, then I realised that some series had added value, I revalued  and printed them (Vidicon 1980).In recent years I have taken the opportunity offered by the digital camera to experiment with this way of working. Everything is much more controllable and rigid, I only partially overlap the frames, resulting in a long frame, similar to a ‘panorama’. With the digital double shot function this cannot be done. The frame remains the size of the sensor, but it is a double exposure to all intents and purposes, when shooting: one with the camera upright and the other with the camera upside down, to give an example.When I found myself in Paris, my first idea was to look for the places in Ed Van Der Elsken’s famous book ‘Love in the Left Bank’, to re-photograph them, but I had difficulty locating the exact places, except for Place Saint-Paul and the Mabillon.I didn’t want to be part of the tourists who photograph Paris,who all photograph the same things… the double exposure saved me, allowing me to interpret what the city offered to my eyes, to my mind, in an original way, and to express the overcrowding, the crush, even of photographs that the places and monuments of Paris suffered. Other images offer new insights, new forms, which do not double the visual experience but contrast it, quoting the writer Di Luca: ‘two is not double of one, they are not bigger, heavier, more beautiful, but the … “opposite”‘.