LA CIVILTÀ ROMANA · VITTORIO STORARO
Heaven above.
Earth below.
Atlas and Neptune.
● Temple of Neptune, Paestum · Bust of Atlas, Vatican Museums
Three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro joins the titan Atlas, who holds the sky, with the Temple of Neptune at Paestum: heaven and earth in one frame.
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THE STORY
The titan who holds the sky, the god of the sea. One cinematographer put them in the same frame of light.
The temple known as the Temple of Neptune at Paestum, south of Naples, was built by Greek settlers around 460 to 450 BC and is one of the best preserved Greek temples in the world. The bust of Atlas is in the Vatican Museums. For the Romans the world had two halves, heaven above and earth below.
Three Academy Awards for cinematography: Apocalypse Now, 1980; Reds, 1982; The Last Emperor, 1988. 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. Storaro gave each god a colour and an hour of the day; here, earth and water meet.
OWN THE PRINT
Bring Atlas home.
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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