photographs
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His travels took the form of an
existential experience, try to find his mother land, too early left, because
of his departure to Rome when he was a child. Already in 1953 Pinna was
gone in Barbagia, stimulated by the anthropologiest and friend Franco Cagnetta,
author of the well known survey - Inchiesta su Orgosolo, later renamed
Banditi ad Orgosolo payng homage to the movie by Vittorio De Seta
inspired by the survey - that between 1951 and 1954 consacrated the birth
of the anthropological studies and the related scientific photography
in Italy (De Martiis, Volta, Machlin).
It is just through Cagnetta's work that Pinna derives
the archetype of the proud "warrior race" through which he gets a sort
of ideal identification with the sardinian people, refusing all the aspects
of a false modernity in contrast with the ancient and rural image of the
isle. So Orgosolo, land of sheperds, outlaws and veiled women becomes the
"moral capital" of Sardinia, to whom Pinna dedicates the more emotional
part of his photobook. |
