Domenico Notarangelo, who died December 6 2016, was a great, absolute talent like Henri Cartier-Bresson or Sebastiao Sal | dG1fcURRQzd5NklRS0k
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00:00 [camera shutter]
00:02 [music]
00:04 Photography is a pretext.
00:07 [music]
00:09 [camera shutter]
00:11 It's not that you photograph to take photos,
00:14 just like a painter paints to make paintings.
00:18 [music]
00:21 Because he has something to say, because he has something to see.
00:24 [music]
00:27 He wasn't a professional photographer,
00:30 but he loved to photograph to testify.
00:35 He was a witness of time.
00:39 In a way, he tried to stop time,
00:42 to represent the development of life,
00:44 and also the passage of history, which sometimes evaporates.
00:48 If we don't stop it with photography, it becomes an untellable story.
00:54 [music]
01:07 These testimonies have an extraordinary value
01:10 because they make us better understand who we are,
01:13 how we are, and how we can become.
01:16 [music]
01:19 Natale Angelo was a man who was politically and culturally committed,
01:25 but he also dealt with this world,
01:28 trying to carry out the struggles of those people
01:32 that we often see in his different photographs.
01:36 [music]
01:38 Those photographs are a film.
01:40 That shot is not a random shot.
01:42 There is a soul, a story, there are characters, there are emotions.
01:46 [music]
01:48 The film by Pasolini, "The Gospel according to Matthew,"
01:52 is very well known for its photographs.
01:57 Through photography, you can stimulate the future,
02:01 so you can focus on what was important in the past
02:04 and transfer this importance, with the soul of that photograph, to the future.
02:08 [music]
02:17 If you forget your identity, if you forget your memory,
02:22 you are a poor man,
02:24 a man sent to the abyss,
02:26 a bottle thrown into the ocean.
02:29 [thunder]
02:31 You are nothing.
02:33 (click)
02:35 [BLANK_AUDIO]