Posts tagged Florence

Ah… Firentzi! on Flickr.Yes, the mass of tourists in this town still gives me sickness.

Ah… Firentzi! on Flickr.

Yes, the mass of tourists in this town still gives me sickness.

La Scuola di guerra aerea

I have to thank my friend & colleague Marco Salmoiraghi who found some shots I did in a rather rarely-accessible place in Firenze that I meant to edit and post somewhere but haven’t yet gotten round to.

He asked me to let him post the unedited (except for one) photos on his own blog - and you should go visit him since what he puts up there is all about beautiful sights of Firenze and environs.

Two words about these photos then:
the Scuola di guerra aerea (sorry, the linked Wiki is in Italian only!) is a rather fascinating and magnificent military school of air war situated inside the Cascine Park of Florence, built in perfect, astounding, gorgeous rationalist style between 1937 and 1938 by the architect Raffaello Fagnoni.

I was able to visit this military school thanks to a special opening day on a Sunday morning a while ago; the photos I have taken during this lucky occasion are of the most casual type - I was too overwhelmed by marveling at the sight of everything there to be able and coordinate my mind to take any proper photo, but you can admire a few details of both insides and outsides.

Thanks Marco!

Particolare di affresco sul soffitto della quadreria di Casa Martelli a Firenze. Peccato solo non poter fotografare e visitare questa magnifica casa con maggiore calma e approfondimento (e non poter conoscere di persona Carlo Martelli, il cui ritratto affascina moltissimo).

Particolare di affresco sul soffitto della quadreria di Casa Martelli a Firenze. Peccato solo non poter fotografare e visitare questa magnifica casa con maggiore calma e approfondimento (e non poter conoscere di persona Carlo Martelli, il cui ritratto affascina moltissimo).

From inside, out on Flickr.One of the most wonderful places in Firenze, where Rationalism got at its best.Scuola Militare Aeronautica Giulio Douhet, Firenze. I will post more.

From inside, out on Flickr.

One of the most wonderful places in Firenze, where Rationalism got at its best.
Scuola Militare Aeronautica Giulio Douhet, Firenze.

I will post more.

Modern city life on Flickr.

Modern city life on Flickr.

“Piovono Polaroid” exhibition A new Polaroid exhibition will be taking place in Firenze (Italy) in March; I still have very incomplete details, but opening will be March 16th in Via del Leone 2 (see map).I will update this post with more details as soon as I get more. Each of the 20 involved Italian artists will contribute with 2 to 5 photographs; I will contribute 5 never-before-exhibited shots.

“Piovono Polaroid” exhibition

A new Polaroid exhibition will be taking place in Firenze (Italy) in March; I still have very incomplete details, but opening will be March 16th in Via del Leone 2 (see map).
I will update this post with more details as soon as I get more.

Each of the 20 involved Italian artists will contribute with 2 to 5 photographs; I will contribute 5 never-before-exhibited shots.

Defying architecture on Flickr.

Defying architecture on Flickr.

The stone & the park on Flickr.Firenze, Parco delle Cascine.‘roid week 2012 contribution #2

The stone & the park on Flickr.

Firenze, Parco delle Cascine.

‘roid week 2012 contribution #2

School boys from Japan walking the streets of Florence on an early Sunday morning on Flickr.This photo is an outtake from the gallery already released on my main website and titled “Walking amongst them”; details, description and the full set of photos available atstuff.aledigangi.com/galleries/walking_amongst_them/

School boys from Japan walking the streets of Florence on an early Sunday morning on Flickr.

This photo is an outtake from the gallery already released on my main website and titled “Walking amongst them”; details, description and the full set of photos available at
stuff.aledigangi.com/galleries/walking_amongst_them/

Shoot when you are blinded on Flickr.Yesterday I went to see my eye doctor, and he gave me the magic drops that make you light-blinded. I was in this state for a few hours and tried to shoot a few photos while going home, even though the process was quite painful. This is one of those photos.

Shoot when you are blinded on Flickr.

Yesterday I went to see my eye doctor, and he gave me the magic drops that make you light-blinded.
I was in this state for a few hours and tried to shoot a few photos while going home, even though the process was quite painful.
This is one of those photos.

It’s snowing in Firenze

I’ve never seen Firenze like this simce more than 25 years. I left the office early and was able to hop on a bus that was passing by. The driver was so good to let us in even though this is not a city bus and it was not its stop. This in really so weird and almost scary. The whole city seems paralized. Wonder if Beppe will make it home tonight if it keeps snowing like this!