{"id":266,"date":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=266"},"modified":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","slug":"1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/1977\/","title":{"rendered":"1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text\">You can sometimes tell when the subject of a photograph has a special relationship with the photographer. This kind of a connection is clear in Pietro Mattioli&rsquo;s 1977 portraits of his friends, partygoers at Club Hey, a gay disco in Zurich. The connection between photographer and subject, as inscribed in the subjects&rsquo; every tiny gesture, brings the photographs to life while Mattioli&rsquo;s attention to the details of their style &ndash; the leather jackets, haircuts, skinny ties, T-shirts, and badges &ndash; sets them in their historical moment. Collectively the photographs reveal the photographer&rsquo;s affection for his subjects and the subjects&rsquo; ease suggests that the feeling was mutual. The direct flash, straight on mug-shot aesthetic of Mattioli&rsquo;s portraits &ndash; a look to which we&rsquo;ve become accustomed through the advertising styles of the past 25 years &ndash; was an anti-aesthetic when Mattioli used it in 1977, a rejection of prevailing notions of photographic &ldquo;beauty&rdquo; in favour of honesty.<\/p>\n<p> The 1977 portraits are interrupted twice by groups of colour photographs of unpeopled scenes of the exteriors of Swiss housing estates, made between 1985 and 1997. A window is open, half of a car is revealed, water has stained one of the walls. Mattioli approaches these subjects with again an interest in detail, the recognition of a transient moment in time, and a will to allow the subject to speak for itself. As a result, Mattioli both critiques the blandness of the concrete environments and poignantly recognises that lives are lived in these places, if evidenced only by a red curtain in an otherwise grey building. The two works combined offer a powerful meditation on time&rsquo;s flexible character: clubbers fully occupying the moment set against grim estates unable to move through time any more quickly.<\/span><span class=\"text\"> <\/span><span class=\"bold\"><span class=\"text\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bold\"><span class=\"text\"><br \/><strong>Leo Hsu<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=223&amp;Itemid=77\" title=\"1977\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"review_photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/reviews\/V4N4\/resources\/1977.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1977\" title=\"1977\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"115\" height=\"172\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><span class=\"review_author\">Pietro Mattioli<\/span><br \/><span class=\"review_additional\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished by Edition Patrick Frey<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t$58<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t122pp Hardback<\/span><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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