LA CIVILTÀ ROMANA · VITTORIO STORARO
Hadrian in blue.
One frame of film.
Fortuna.
● Head of Hadrian · Capitoline Museums, Rome
In his book, Vittorio Storaro gave every emperor a colour, and Hadrian is light blue. Here that blue light meets Fortuna, the goddess of luck.
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THE STORY
Every emperor has a colour. Hadrian's is the blue of moonlight, and it shows what a face hides.
Hadrian ruled from 117 to 138 and travelled the whole empire. Fortuna, goddess of luck, reminded Romans that a life can turn in one moment.
Three Academy Awards for cinematography: Apocalypse Now, 1979; Reds, 1981; The Last Emperor, 1987. Then he spent five years photographing the Roman world.
Created with a film camera. A double exposure made directly on the same negative, in a single frame. No Photoshop. A portrait, for Storaro, is a ray of light carving a face out of darkness.
OWN THE PRINT
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Printed from his original slide on fine art paper, and shipped free in the US. Captured in camera, on film, by a three-time Academy Award winner.
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