Cover, image source: Courtesy of the artist

Publisher Note

ICONA is the photographic essay made by Toni Amengual during his stay at the Spanish Academy in Rome in 2021. Taking the eternal city as a field of work, the author reflects on the use of images as a device of social control.

The book includes photographs showing classical art, originally conceived as a form of propaganda by religious and political systems. And photographs of contemporary scenes. This combination evidences the direct relationship that exists between classical representations of art and current representations. At the same time, in the contemporary photographs there is a constant presence of security cameras and cell phones to hint at the control by means of images to which we are subjected today.

Publisher self-published
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2021
Credits
Artist: Toni Amengual
Printrun 350
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-841 210 1461
Availability Available
Work  
Methods Photography
Dimensions 10.8 × 16.2 cm
Pages 128