Gary Green, Obelisks
Gary Green, Obelisks
Photographer: Gary Green, born New York, New York, resides Waterville, ME.
Publisher: Danilo Montanari Editore (Ravenna, Italy copyright 2021)
Poems: Gianluca Rizzo
Text: English
Book description: softcover, sewn binding with folded dust jacket, 9.5 x 5 inches, 64 pages, printed and bound in Italy
Gary Green’s photographs explore the relationship between Rome, its Egyptian obelisks, and the people who move through the city’s piazzas and side streets as part of an ever-changing landscape representing thousands of years of history. The photographs, describe these surfaces in the blazing light and deep shadows of summer.
Gianluca Rizzo’s poems contemplate the forms this ancient symbol has taken across the United States. Invariably, the faces of these stones are engraved with inscriptions that speak to the viewer and address the millennia, like their ancient Egyptians models have been doing from the beginning of time. These poems reflect on those words, the stones that speak them, the stories of the people who erected them, and the events they commemorate.
