George Tatge: Video Ritratti d'Autore Series on Italian Photography

Artribune launches 'Video Ritratti d'Autore', a series of intimate video portraits exploring the lives and practices of Italian photographers. The first episode features George Tatge (born 1951, Istanbul; lives in Florence), who describes photography as a tool for inner research. Influenced by Walker Evans, Paul Strand, and Luigi Ghirri, Tatge uses a large-format view camera to capture landscapes that transcend the postcard-like, aiming for a sublime precariousness. The series includes ten other photographers: Gianni Gosdan, Erika Pellicci, Massimo Vitali, Marco Signorini, Nino Migliori, Paolo Simonazzi, Beatrice Speranza, Roberto Kusterle, Alan Maglio, and Pio Tarantini. The article also promotes Artribune's newsletters: 'Incanti' (art market weekly), 'Render' (urban regeneration biweekly), 'PAX' (cultural tourism biweekly), and 'Lettera' (daily). Author Giulia Vannucci, a graduate of Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze with a thesis on Romantic landscape painters, wrote the piece.