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Alessandro Cosmelli and Gaia Light

Brooklyn Buzz

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Italian-born photographers Alessandro Cosmelli and Gaia Light’s Brooklyn Buzz uses the framing device of a bus window frame, and the attendant serendipities of photographing on a moving vehicle, to present...

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  • ISBN: 9788862082419
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 208
  • Illustrations: 94
  • Binding: Brossura
  • Release: Fall 2012
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Italian-born photographers Alessandro Cosmelli and Gaia Light’s Brooklyn Buzz uses the framing device of a bus window frame, and the attendant serendipities of photographing on a moving vehicle, to present an extended photographic portrait of Brooklyn and its inhabitants. Cosmelli and Light have been photographing Brooklyn, their adopted home since 2007, capturing the borough at its most social and vibrant. “The windows work as filters with the outside,” they write of this project, “sometimes like enlarging lenses, amplifying, revealing unpredictable details, capturing life as it is in that precise moment, in the streets, at the bus stop, through the windows of a local deli; other times they work more like protective barriers that allow you to deeply penetrate people’s lives.” Analogous to Frank’s The Americans as a European eye on America, Brooklyn Buzz is full of effervescent charm and warmth.

Alessandro Cosmelli nasce a Livorno nel 1972. Dopo la laurea in Geologia all’Università di Pisa, si dedica alla fotografia, avviando, nel 2001, la carriera foto-giornalistica che lo porterà a trasferirsi a New York, dove vive e lavora dal 2006. Nel 2005 intraprende una lunga indagine fotografica sull’estrema desta italiana, realizzando un ritratto antropologico del gruppo neo-fascista Casapound, raccolto successivamente in Oltrenero, un volume edito da Contrasto e premiato tra i migliori dieci libri fotografici del 2009 dal Pictures Of the Year International (POYi). Le sue immagini sono state esibite in ambito internazionale e pubblicate estensivamente dalle principali testate e piattaforme multimediali, televisive e web, ricevendo riconoscimenti da istituzioni come Pictures Of the Year International, Photo España Award for Human Values, Prix de la Photographie Paris. Alessandro Cosmelli, insieme all’artista Gaia Light, è l’ideatore di The Buzz Project, un progetto dedicato all’identità – e all’Umanità- della metropoli contemporanea, inaugurato nel 2012.

Gaialight (o Gaia Light, per la sua produzione video e fotografica) nasce a Roma da madre newyorkese e padre palermitano. Dal 2006 vive e lavora tra New York e Miami. Dopo gli studi classici e una laurea in Giurisprudenza all’Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, si dedica esclusivamente alla ricerca artistica, trasferendo il forte interesse per la legalità su terreni d’indagine visiva, di matrice antropologica e in relazione costante con aspetti controversi della società contemporanea. Artista visuale e fotografa documentaria, nel 2012 pubblica, insieme al fotografo Alessandro Cosmelli, il libro fotografico Brooklyn Buzz, primo capitolo di The Buzz Project, edito da Damiani. Nel 2010 fonda la Light TV, piattaforma multimediale di sperimentazione video e Televisione Indipendente su Youtube.

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  • Description

    Italian-born photographers Alessandro Cosmelli and Gaia Light’s Brooklyn Buzz uses the framing device of a bus window frame, and the attendant serendipities of photographing on a moving vehicle, to present an extended photographic portrait of Brooklyn and its inhabitants. Cosmelli and Light have been photographing Brooklyn, their adopted home since 2007, capturing the borough at its most social and vibrant. “The windows work as filters with the outside,” they write of this project, “sometimes like enlarging lenses, amplifying, revealing unpredictable details, capturing life as it is in that precise moment, in the streets, at the bus stop, through the windows of a local deli; other times they work more like protective barriers that allow you to deeply penetrate people’s lives.” Analogous to Frank’s The Americans as a European eye on America, Brooklyn Buzz is full of effervescent charm and warmth.


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    Alessandro Cosmelli nasce a Livorno nel 1972. Dopo la laurea in Geologia all’Università di Pisa, si dedica alla fotografia, avviando, nel 2001, la carriera foto-giornalistica che lo porterà a trasferirsi a New York, dove vive e lavora dal 2006. Nel 2005 intraprende una lunga indagine fotografica sull’estrema desta italiana, realizzando un ritratto antropologico del gruppo neo-fascista Casapound, raccolto successivamente in Oltrenero, un volume edito da Contrasto e premiato tra i migliori dieci libri fotografici del 2009 dal Pictures Of the Year International (POYi). Le sue immagini sono state esibite in ambito internazionale e pubblicate estensivamente dalle principali testate e piattaforme multimediali, televisive e web, ricevendo riconoscimenti da istituzioni come Pictures Of the Year International, Photo España Award for Human Values, Prix de la Photographie Paris. Alessandro Cosmelli, insieme all’artista Gaia Light, è l’ideatore di The Buzz Project, un progetto dedicato all’identità – e all’Umanità- della metropoli contemporanea, inaugurato nel 2012.

    Gaialight (o Gaia Light, per la sua produzione video e fotografica) nasce a Roma da madre newyorkese e padre palermitano. Dal 2006 vive e lavora tra New York e Miami. Dopo gli studi classici e una laurea in Giurisprudenza all’Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, si dedica esclusivamente alla ricerca artistica, trasferendo il forte interesse per la legalità su terreni d’indagine visiva, di matrice antropologica e in relazione costante con aspetti controversi della società contemporanea. Artista visuale e fotografa documentaria, nel 2012 pubblica, insieme al fotografo Alessandro Cosmelli, il libro fotografico Brooklyn Buzz, primo capitolo di The Buzz Project, edito da Damiani. Nel 2010 fonda la Light TV, piattaforma multimediale di sperimentazione video e Televisione Indipendente su Youtube.


  • Shipping

    Shipments are made worldwide by express courier.

    Delivery is expected within 7 working days after registration of payment.

    Shipping costs vary depending on the weight of the shipment and the country of destination, and are calculated automatically when the order is placed.


  • Return and refund

    Pursuant to Article 5 of Legislative Decree No. 185 of 22 May 1999, if the customer is a consumer (i.e. a natural person who purchases goods for purposes not related to his or her professional activity, or who makes a purchase by omitting a VAT number from the order form), he or she has the right to withdraw from the purchase contract for any reason whatsoever, without the need to provide explanations and without any penalty, within 14 working days from the day of receipt of the goods.

    The right of withdrawal shall be exercised by sending, within the aforementioned term, a written notice to the geographical address of the supplier's registered office by means of a registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. The communication may also be sent, again within the same deadline, by means of a PEC or facsimile.
    The consumer shall enclose with the communication all the references of the order (order date, order number, precise references identifying the party concerned, company or private individual.
    The goods you wish to return must be undamaged and in their original packaging.

    The consumer must also supplement the communication with his or her complete bank details in order to obtain reimbursement of the sums paid (current account number, ABI and CAB, CIN code; for foreign countries, the BIC and IBAN codes), which will be carried out as quickly as possible and in any case within fourteen days of the date on which the supplier became aware of the consumer's exercise of the right of withdrawal. As the only charge for exercising the right of withdrawal, the consumer shall bear the direct cost of returning the goods. In the case of payment by credit card, the sums shall be returned net of bank commission charges (2.5%).

    In the event of a dispute, reference will be made to the competent court.