Book
Italian Story
21 Jul 2026
Abstract
A forty-year photographic journey through Italy, Italian Story blends history and fiction into a deeply personal meditation on time, place, and the act of seeing.
Italian Story is the culmination of more than forty years of photographic work by Andrea Modica in Italy, a country with which the artist has formed a deep, evolving relationship. Made entirely with an 8×10 view camera, the photographs span decades and regions, revealing a slow, attentive way of seeing rooted in time, presence, and return. The title draws from the layered meaning of the Italian word storia—at once history, story, situation, and fiction—reflecting the book’s open, fluid narrative. Rather than offering a linear account, Italian Story unfolds as a personal and poetic record of encounters, places, and moments shaped by memory and imagination. Balancing intimacy and distance, documentary precision and lyrical ambiguity, Modica’s images form a quiet meditation on duration, place, and the act of looking. Published by L’Artiere, the book stands as an ongoing visual narrative—both lived and constructed—between photographer and country.
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Details
- Title
- Italian Story
- Creators
- Andrea L Modica - Drexel University, Art and Art History
- Publisher
- L'Artiere
- Number of pages
- 96
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Art and Art History
- Other Identifier
- 9791280978332; 991022233944304721
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