2 posts tagged “rome”
It's finally happened. I've gone digital.
It's taken me a long time, I know. But everyone has a little bit of luddite in them, and mine has always preferred film. Although I've had a digital point-and-shoot for years, I've been slow to migrate when it comes to my "real" camera. But this weekend I finally broke down. Circumstances forced my hand ... My old SLR broke a year ago (it took a fatal fall on a cobblestoned street in Copenhagen when my neck strap snapped). And this past weekend, my friend Tam asked me to photograph her teeny-tiny wedding in Rome.
Embarrassed by my camera-less-ness, and determined to do a good job for my sweet friend Tam, I took the plunge and bought a Nikon D80. Three days on, I'm pretty pleased. And not nearly as freaked out as I thought I would be. The proof will really be in the prints, but in any case it has me back to my old tricks: Shooting store fronts and streetlights ...
Wandering around Rome on Sunday, I became mesmerized by this molto postmodern dance troupe. Donning different period costumes, moving very sloooowly and wearing on their faces various looks of despair and dimentia, they held the rapt attention of several hundred tourists in Piazza Navona.
I'm not sure I understood this particular piece of performance art any more than rest of the gelato-eating americans gathered. But my theory went something like this: Judging by the age of the dancers and their PoMo-fem-studies flair, I decided it was a conceptual historical piece, depicting four different faces of Italian women's oppression, and also a commentary on the state of modern dance.
Or something like that.
