"In Venice, the festival is spontaneous and completely improvised. The Carnival has no organizer, no choreographer, no director -
only a few hundred faithful aficionados who, year after year, add the costume of their dreams to their collection : here, characters from history, there,
devoted admirers of the allegoric mask - the minor marquises and the grand duchesses versus the finery
of the sun or the moon...
...in St. Mark's Square, concealed behind their papier-mâché faces, the figures come and go
in slow motion. Their movements are languorous, their pauses affected their anonymity perfect.
Behind these frozen faces, only the movement of the eyelids betrays any life.
The charm is total, the image is perfect."
Maurice Olivari - Reporter
A book containing 96 pages of photos with a preface by Maurice Olivari, a journalist working for the French TV channel, TF1.
Texts in French, English and Italian.
The 130 colour photos are about the Carnival's masks and costumes as well as sartorial details such as sticks, shoes, accessories, etc.
All the photos were taken on the spot during the 2001 Venice Carnival.
