Israel. Jerusalem. Autumn 1967.
Copyright: Photograph by Fosco Maraini / Property of GabinettoVieusseux © 2024 Alinari Archives.
Maraini's stylistic signature is clearly present in the astonishing view of the walls of Jerusalem, which, in an almost nineteenth-century postcard-like context, seemed to want to tell us about the fury of a city, as Maraini writes, "destroyed, rebuilt, shaken and recomposed so many times that, if we could see a film made of frames taken one per year and projected at normal speed, the spectacle would have the effect of an epileptic spasm. In this spasm, in this vortex, the final atoms are the stones: those beautiful golden-blonde stones that seem pregnant with sunlight and warmth."