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Igor Ponti
Looking for Identity
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Texts by: Pietro Bellasi, Giovanna Calvenzi
English, Italian
November 2014,
136
Pages, 0 Ills., 59 Photos
clothbound
247mm x
288mm
ISBN:
978-3-7757-3925-2
| In search of Switzerland: Igor Ponti explores the Confoederatio Helvetica
The Swiss cross comes to mind, the Swiss army knife, the Alps, cheese of course, or perhaps fine chocolate: but just what is typically Swiss? What characterizes the country and its people, and connects the various regions despite their different languages? These questions led Swiss photographer Igor Ponti (*1981), who focuses on traditional and emerging identities, on a cross-canton journey—with the odd detour. He discovers expressive visual Helvetisisms and, in part in a mocking or affectionate way, points out distinctions between the cantons that nevertheless connect them in terms of culture and territory: freeways cut through picturesque landscapes, a massively carved William Tell stands by the wayside, wurst stands sell cervelat or fried sausage, a charming, old wooden house causes one to feel nostalgic, garden gnomes wear red and white, concrete antitank barriers protect the endangered idyll.
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