In 1978, Hiroji Kubota was in Burma. He documented the change in East Asia and not far from the places of consumerism and mass production, a symbol of an ongoing revolution, the Japanese photographer, the first member of the Magnum Photos of the Rising Sun, portrayed Buddhist monks praying in front of the Golden Rock: the nation’s third most important Buddhist pilgrimage site to the top of Mount Kyaiktiyo.
And it is precisely of mountains and peaks that he speaks the exhibition at the Castle of Caldes (until 9 October 2022) in the province of Trento, whose title Living at the top. Men and mountains introduces a theme often explored by Magnum photographers, described here with about one hundred shots. All with different declinations: a refuge, you can see it in the shot by Raghu Rai, behind a young Dalai Lama the scenography is the peaks of Ladakh; culture and tradition in the portrait of a child Philip Jones Griffiths in the Gobi desert in Mongolia, but there is also theAfghanistan with Thomas Dworzakthe image was taken in October 2001, just one year after the German photographer joined the agency, a few months after the Americans arrived in the territory.
There are also the ancient civilizations of Bruno Barbey and the tourist infrastructures seen by René Burri, conflict as a topic back with Alex Majoli And Christopher Anderson and pure beauty with the works of Paolo Pellegrin and Thomas Hoepker. A journey around the world, seen from above.
Source: Vanity Fair
