Aaron Schuman - Sonata British Social photography

Aaron Schuman - Sonata British Social photographyMACK 2022 Do you know the land where lemons trees bloom, Where oranges glow like gold in a dark leafy gloom Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796 SONATA is an extensive body of photographic work made by Aaron Schuman in Italy over the past four years. Rather than attempting to capture and convey an objective reality, these images are consciously filtered through the many ideas, fascinations, and fantasies associated with the country and what it has

Among these domestic landscapes are portraits of Meeks’ daughter

and labourers

The book includes an extensive text written by Fukase himself and a modern essay by Tomo Kosuga

There are no sights to see

Named by the Portuguese in their ‘Age of Discovery’

Fish Story saw Allan Sekula’s career-long pursuit of a contemporary ‘critical realism’ reach its most complex articulation

is a photographer's simple credo

It features a group of young men

which contains nothing except a few undated photographs

redemption

a potent symbol of value

to imagine