Background information
"'Transmontanus', the Latin term meaning 'beyond the mountains', is an allusion to the wind coming from the Pyrenees that characterises the Catalan region of the Empordà, not only defining its identity but also bringing change and erosion.'Transmontanus' is both, a journal and a journey back to a landscape we knew as children. The journal describes a rediscovery: going back to that landscape and seeing it from a perspective that time has changed forever, and recognising that neither we nor our landscapes will ever be the same again." (publisher's note, © Editiones Anomalas)Content
Book review
"'Transmontanus' is an elegant little book of black and white images by Salvi DANÉS (...), it tells the poetic story of returning to the landscape one knew as a child and seeing it with fresh eyes, reliving the experience and being of the place you once knew and feeling the eddies of those past experiences mingle with the sensations of the present. 'Transmontanus' is a book where the textures of the landscape, the feel of the wind in your hair, the looking and the waiting are written into the images. They seem almost nostalgic and a little bit magical - there are stairs that go nowhere and doors that hang in the middle of fields.But there are also the piercing eyes of the present. At times Salvi DANÉS seems to yank us away from our reverie into the here and now. We are yanked out of our naive childhood memories, memories that are invented and unreliable in any case and placed back into the harshness of the immediate present. 'Landscapes are invented', says Salvi DANÉS, 'and memories, childhood and time are invented too'. 'Transmontanus' is a visual depiction of those memories that is quiet, elegant and rather lovely." (© Colin Pantall, in: https://colinpantall.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/salvi-danes-invention-of-landscape.html)
About the photographer, Salvi DANÉS
Photo books by Salvi DANÉS
- Book design
- Carina GARRIDO
- Format
- Pb, 15 x 20 cm., 88 pp., b/w illls., product details in English (no more text)