The story is
different every time, from the minor anecdotes at the beginning and
the time of photographic narration lasts not only from dawn to dusk,
but at times extends for days. But the real story, which only those
who have seen me taking photographs, is that I use special cameras I
have created and built specially. They now have a definite identity;
called "Free Eye", they are produced and marketed for both
amateur and professional photographers.
The book
should therefore be seen from a dual point of view because it
expresses a composite itinerary in contemporary architecture, limited
to a specific place, the Gallura region, where there have been
significant experiences in modern architecture, almost unique of their
kind. I have been able to work there from the very beginning, covering
twenty years of habitual visiting as photographer with an increasingly
close relationship!
The book also
relates a very original technical experiment of mine, the "Free
Eye", my invention in photography.
In 1988,
following a personal intuition, thanks to the collaboration with a
mechanical engineer, I developed the first prototype of the "Free
Eye", in a metal alloy which is normally used in aeronautics. Now
it is a real tool of work which looks like a small disc and is mounted
between the lens and the body of the photographer’s camera, to
obtain, with outstanding simplicity and rapidity, all the optical
movements necessary to correct the perspective and the falling lines
of each photograph, and in particular if they are of geometric
subjects.
All this is
only thanks to an intuition: "just as your eye is free to move
the pupil between the lids", when you use a lens you can move it
freely too, rotating it in the circle of its range, over the entire
image!
This
apparatus may also be applied, keeping the same identical
characteristics, on to professional telecameras which can now have
"camera movements" until now impossible.
Evocations
that give a complete meaning to the moment as experienced: there is
nothing magic nor technical but the alchemy of a set of factors which
are connected to one another: I have simply applied the possibilities
the technological element offered me to relate to my method of
expression.
I hope that
it will be the same thing for you with my Free Eye.
