{"product_id":"paolo-ventura-war-souvenir-9788889032978","title":"War Souvenir","description":"It is World War II. The corpse of a soldier lies someplace in the mountains of central Italy; in Milan, a German hidden in the cellar of a house in Via Monte Nevoso is captured by partisans; in Turin, German soldiers look at the body of a member of the partisan organization, who has just been killed in a shoot-out. These are only three of the photographs Paolo Ventura has included in War Souvenir, a book which reflects and recounts the crude intensity of that war. But unlike the work of other photographers, Venturas pictures are clearly fake: the images are the result of metious preparation, and each one presents a non-existent but apparently truthful memory. The soldiers are dummies, the scenes and objects in which they act are all in miniature. Ventura represents war as a game in a grotesque dollhouse, but he does so without abandoning either wars emotion or its pain. His photographs constitute a profound and surprising reflection on the power of documentation and memory.","brand":"Contrasto","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53856776880470,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/paolo-ventura-war-souvenir-9788889032978","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}