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Matinee: 'NightHawks'
27 May 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 502nd in our series of Saturday matinees today: NightHawks.
In this silent 5:02 slide show, Milanese photographer Massimo S. Volonté presents his personal project shooting people enjoying the night at bars and clubs. The series takes its name from Edward Hopper's 1942 painting Nighthawks), which portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night.
Volonté describes his project:
As a street portrait photographer I've often shot snapshots in bars and clubs, mainly at night.
For this reason it seemed obvious to me to pay a tribute to Edward Hopper, an American painter born 1882. He was the man who in 1942 painted "Nighthawks," an oil-on-canvas painting on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.
This series of my photos collects primarily presents images of many night owls. Bartenders, night managers, cooks, it's work pointing out that it's normal to find people who work at night spots And then ... the "barflies," guys and girls but even older people, every kind of person, layers, journalists, artists, people passing by.
To be a street portrait photographer today means you have to look for your subject in the strangest places!
Volonté specializes in portrait, fashion, wedding and art photographys. He rarely finds himself without a camera.
Lucky for us.