Books
The collaboration with photographer Marco Delogu resulted in six books. In some publications Massimo Reale acted as author, while in others he edited the selection of texts and the presentation of the project.
Capalbio
Pages: 88
Cover with strips 23.5×30 cm
Euro 20.00
Year of publication: 2005
This project stems from a strong bond with a territory and its communities, hunters, horsemen and shepherds, and from a history of friendship with some of the people portrayed.
I do not hunt and I do not know how to shoot, but I have great respect for wild boar hunting and its rituals.
Photofinish
Pages: 112
Size: 31x31cm
41 colour and black and white photographs
Year of publication: 2005
Book edited by Marco Delogu text editor Massimo Reale.
I Trenta Assassini (The Thirty Assassins)
Pages: 104
Cover with strips 25×31 cm
36 B/W trichrome photos; ita/ing
Year of publication: 2004
Oh how beautiful is the Piazza di Siena surrounded by ten jockeys go to the move are ten killers…
So goes a Sienese adage. It would be difficult to define otherwise the men who twice a year throw themselves onto the tufa of the Campo di Siena in a horse race that is not a sporting competition but a war of symbols.
The Palio is living Middle Ages not representation.
Uomini, Terra e Mare (Men, Land and Sea)
Pages: 108, 19 colour photos
Cover with strips 21.5×28 cm
36 B/W three-colour photos; ita/ing
Year of publication: 2004
Language: Italian
Non-commercial edition
Listening, letting the place explain itself: this is the path I have chosen to accompany Marco Delogu’s photographs.
Phrases, truncated speeches snatched from the nocturnal murmur of the Rome Agri-Food Center, fragments of words collected as if turning up the volume on dialogues and monologues that accompany the work. In “Men, land and sea” there isn’t always a correspondence between photographic portrait and quoted phrase; usually images and words follow independent paths, united only by the time factor: the exact moment when a phrase was born or an expression was captured.
It’s time that gives value to words and images, that reveals the cold and fatigue of these trades, and it’s in the light of the clock face that words and photographs appear transformed or reinforced in their meaning.
What I believe I found in the ultra-modern structure of the Rome Agri-Food Center is the voice of an ancient world not at all unprepared for advancing globalization, people moving into the future with the balance of a seafarer or the solid step of a farmer.
Capannelle, tracce sull’erba (Capannelle, tracks on the grass)
Year of publication: 2004
What remains of a horse race? After they, the protagonists, have passed by, pushed by arm or under whip.
After a sombre sound of hooves announced them preceding our gaze.
A new noise that memory immediately recognises, like an echo from the past, from the time when horse and man fought and lived together.
What remains of a horse race? The howl of the crowd, the joy, some half-hearted swearing, the tired animals that docile and exhausted, return to the ring.
All that remains are the men clambering into the stirrups, dried by the exertion and by the saunas, hinting at expressions and crooked smiles. A gust of wind on the Campanelle lawn and the ritual begins again: other protagonists, another thrill. Yet that single moment is the work of years, of lives. And we have gone in search of these lives, starting from a trace on the grass that the next gallop will confuse until it disappears.
We have travelled backwards along the path that leads from the starting cages to the stables and from the stables to the protagonists of this micro-world that is the Capannelle racecourse.
Traces of horses and men that we have collected so that they will not be lost.
Paesaggi romani con tram e autobus (Roman Landscapes with Trams and Buses)
Pages: 12, 12 colour photo
Cover with strips 21×28 cm
41 three-colour B/W photos; ita/ing
Year of publication: 2003
Language: Italian
Euro: 25,00
A book by Marco Delogu and Massimo Reale.
Photofinish
Pages: 108, 6 colour photos
Cover with strips 31×31 cm
27 B/W trichrome photos;
Year of publication: 2005
Language: Italian/ English
Euro: 25.00
ISBN: 88-85121-95-0
The relationship between horse and man existed seventeen thousand years ago as evidenced by the cave paintings of Lascaux, and Homer already described nine hundred years before Christ the tight finish of a horse race.
To the world of racing, steeped in history and culture, Marco Delogu and Massimo Reale turn their attention with Photofinish. The selection of photographs curated by Marco Delogu is flanked by a poetic journey, curated by Massimo Reale, from the fifth century before Christ to the poets of today.
The images of Koudelka, Doisneau, Muybridge, Richards, side by side with the verses of Sophocles, Carducci, Yeats, Bukowsky, form a book of great impact that tells us how much the horse, which has almost disappeared from our daily lives, has found a place in our imagination
Pages: 108, 6 colour photos
Cover with strips 31×31 cm
27 B/W trichrome photos;
Year of publication: 2005
Language: Italian/ English
Euro: 25.00
ISBN: 88-85121-95-0
The relationship between horse and man existed seventeen thousand years ago as evidenced by the cave paintings of Lascaux, and Homer already described nine hundred years before Christ the tight finish of a horse race.
To the world of racing, steeped in history and culture, Marco Delogu and Massimo Reale turn their attention with Photofinish. The selection of photographs curated by Marco Delogu is flanked by a poetic journey, curated by Massimo Reale, from the fifth century before Christ to the poets of today.
The images of Koudelka, Doisneau, Muybridge, Richards, side by side with the verses of Sophocles, Carducci, Yeats, Bukowsky, form a book of great impact that tells us how much the horse, which has almost disappeared from our daily lives, has found a place in our imagination
Pages: 12, 12 colour photo
Cover with strips 21×28 cm
41 three-colour B/W photos; ita/ing
Year of publication: 2003
Language: Italian
Euro: 25,00
A book by Marco Delogu and Massimo Reale.
Year of publication: 2004
What remains of a horse race? After they, the protagonists, have passed by, pushed by arm or under whip.
After a sombre sound of hooves announced them preceding our gaze.
A new noise that memory immediately recognises, like an echo from the past, from the time when horse and man fought and lived together.
What remains of a horse race? The howl of the crowd, the joy, some half-hearted swearing, the tired animals that docile and exhausted, return to the ring.
All that remains are the men clambering into the stirrups, dried by the exertion and by the saunas, hinting at expressions and crooked smiles. A gust of wind on the Campanelle lawn and the ritual begins again: other protagonists, another thrill. Yet that single moment is the work of years, of lives. And we have gone in search of these lives, starting from a trace on the grass that the next gallop will confuse until it disappears.
We have travelled backwards along the path that leads from the starting cages to the stables and from the stables to the protagonists of this micro-world that is the Capannelle racecourse.
Traces of horses and men that we have collected so that they will not be lost.
Pages: 108, 19 colour photos
Cover with strips 21.5×28 cm
36 B/W three-colour photos; ita/ing
Year of publication: 2004
Language: Italian
Non-commercial edition
Listening, letting the place explain itself: this is the path I have chosen to accompany Marco Delogu’s photographs.
Phrases, truncated speeches snatched from the nocturnal murmur of the Rome Agri-Food Center, fragments of words collected as if turning up the volume on dialogues and monologues that accompany the work. In “Men, land and sea” there isn’t always a correspondence between photographic portrait and quoted phrase; usually images and words follow independent paths, united only by the time factor: the exact moment when a phrase was born or an expression was captured.
It’s time that gives value to words and images, that reveals the cold and fatigue of these trades, and it’s in the light of the clock face that words and photographs appear transformed or reinforced in their meaning.
What I believe I found in the ultra-modern structure of the Rome Agri-Food Center is the voice of an ancient world not at all unprepared for advancing globalization, people moving into the future with the balance of a seafarer or the solid step of a farmer.
Pages: 104
Cover with strips 25×31 cm
36 B/W trichrome photos; ita/ing
Year of publication: 2004
Oh how beautiful is the Piazza di Siena surrounded by ten jockeys go to the move are ten killers…
So goes a Sienese adage. It would be difficult to define otherwise the men who twice a year throw themselves onto the tufa of the Campo di Siena in a horse race that is not a sporting competition but a war of symbols.
The Palio is living Middle Ages not representation.
Pages: 112
Size: 31x31cm
41 colour and black and white photographs
Year of publication: 2005
Book edited by Marco Delogu text editor Massimo Reale.
Pages: 88
Cover with strips 23.5×30 cm
Euro 20.00
Year of publication: 2005
This project stems from a strong bond with a territory and its communities, hunters, horsemen and shepherds, and from a history of friendship with some of the people portrayed.
I do not hunt and I do not know how to shoot, but I have great respect for wild boar hunting and its rituals.
