"From the computer to the salted paper" is not the title of a boring conference, organized by old nostalgic people. It is instead a very quick travel shot (20 images) on the expressive potential of the ancient techniques, hosted by the Cultural Association "La camera chiara" ("The Bright Camera") in the chapel of Villa Litta, situated in the interior of the Affori Ward Library in Milano.

    These images are the fruit of a personal research aimed to enhance the distinctive elements present still in embryo in the original photograms, but respecting their identity.
    The techniques utilized for this purpose have had very different: from the computer and darkroom elaboration, to the ancient printing techniques.
    These elaborations, or better "simplifications", aim at reducing to the essential the principal features of the subjects and the color nuances, sending into service of each image the expessive capacities of the various techniques.
    So, free of the slags of the too-much-true and distilled with the alchemy of the darkroom, the particular of the popular alpine houses, the atmospheres without time or the strong nineteenth-century flavour of some images are able to emerge again.


    The images come from the second part of the exhibition "On the Thread of a Dream", where they can be seen. The visitor must remind that the sequence of images in "From the computer to the salted paper" is almost entirely inverted compared to the original in "On the Thread of a Dream".