EMBRACING IMPERFECTION is a book with copperplate photogravures printed in an edition of 4.
It’s a book about coming to terms with accidents and imperfections of the photographic kind that speak of photography as it was in the pre-digital age, a physical medium with its support, its emulsion, its chemicals, its fragility and its instability due to time, that amazing master of decay. The book features enlargements of photographic accidents and imperfections including torn, crushed, scratched, stained, soiled, moldy, bungled, streaked, wrinkled, discolored, buckled, curled, blistered, badly processed and improperly stored negatives from a mass of 35mm B&W films that I shot and developed between 1965 and 1969 that I had haphazardly dumped in some cardboard boxes in the cellar of my family’s house in Castello (Firenze) that I found recently when we had to empty the house. So, I resolved to print what I had rejected and what fifty years ago I would have never considered printing.
A book on acceptance and redemption, It may contain traces of memories, regrets and happiness.