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Paulo Nozolino: Loaded Shine

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Paulo Nozolino: Loaded Shine presents a powerful collection of photographs taken between 2008 and 2013 across cities such as New York, Lisbon, Paris, and Berlin, as well as rural areas in France and Portugal. Using 35mm film and occasionally flash, Nozolino explores a dark symbolic syntax to capture the fragile state of the world. The images convey themes of decay, confinement, and the slow destruction of life, reflecting a society caught in negligence and decline. Through a sequence of vertical shots, Nozolino invites viewers to confront the harsh realities and unredeemable condition of our times, leaving an impression of looming end and persistent darkness.
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of fine art photography and those interested in contemplative visual art that reflects on societal decay and existential themes. It will also appeal to readers fascinated by analog photography and symbolic imagery.

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Taken between 2008 and 2013 in New York, Lisbon, Paris and Berlin as well as in the French and Portuguese countryside, this book includes photographs by Paulo Nozolino bear his usual dark symbolic syntax.

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Taken between 2008 and 2013 in New York, Lisbon, Paris and Berlin as well as in the French and Portuguese countryside, these photographs by Paulo Nozolino bear his usual dark symbolic syntax. Still using 35mm film and occasionally a flash, this tight sequence of vertical pictures shows us, once again, his everlasting concern for the state of the world and his quest for the pure, true, non-manipulated analogue image.

Paulo Nozolino: Loaded Shine is a bright obscure piece. The transparency of the black shows a world that is continually destroying itself. Closer to the certitude of an end. The decadence of the place. Life by a thread, leaving traces of light. This is where we came to. This is where we are. All we have left is putrefaction, garbage, claustral confinement, a quiet decay that embraces slow death. So slow that we still may believe it might never come.

We see her, we feel her, we touch her with our own hands. Yet. We are responsible for the disease but we don't know how to escape from it. We were hungry and we ate. We are dreaming about the crumbs that we left behind. Unwise. Eyes on the floor, there is no redeeming act. Prisoners of a dirty and corrupted matter. Emptiness. Full of guilt inhabited by a depressing seediness, by careless negligence, by lazy weakness, by the violence of the spirit. Home is a forgotten word. And so are many others.

Alexandra Carita

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Steve Harp from "PhotoBook Journal" praises the photographs in Loaded Shine for their distinctive, murky visual style. He highlights Nozolino's mastery of shadow and darkness, noting how the images often verge on the indecipherable yet beautifully articulate the artist's visual language perfected throughout his career.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783869309729

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 June 2018

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: Illustrated in black and white throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 298.0mm

Weight: 520g

Pages: 48

About the Author

Paulo Nozolino was born in 1955 in Lisbon, and lived in London and Paris before settling again in Portugal. In the span of his forty-year career, Nozolino has traveled widely in Europe, America, the Middle East and North Africa. His work has been largely shown and honored with several awards, and is held in numerous private and public collections. Nozolino's books include Penumbra (Scalo, 1996), Far Cry (Steidl, 2005), bone lonely (Steidl, 2011) and Makulatur (Steidl, 2011).

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