Forest. 1976.

Gelatin silver print on double weight glossy fiber paper -measures: 17 x 11.5 x cm / 6.7 x 4.52 in-, dated and signed, with a wet stamp on the back, indicating the address, in Buenos Aires: 1470 Juncal street, and the telephone number. Uncommon work on the market, signed by both authors.

In the recent history of Argentine photography there have been some phenomena worthy of mention and, without a doubt, one of them is the new emergence of talented women who contributed a look, a sensitivity, a feminine approach, which was desperately needed to complete the circle of this exciting artistic discipline.

Among these pioneering cameras emerge the talented figures of Sara Facio (1932) and Alicia D'Amico (1933 - 2001), first trained in the rigor of a professional photographer, as was Alicia's father, Luis D'Amico, and both perfecting their knowledge in the studio of Annemarie Henrich. Together they had obtained a scholarship that allowed them to travel around Paris for a year, an experience that enriched their artistic knowledge, even that possessed by A. D´Amico, who had been a professor of Fine Arts.

Romantic companions and partners in countless cultural and commercial projects in the photographic field -exhibitions, institutions, books, conferences, editorial and journalistic collaborations, etc.- the visual corpus produced by the Facio-D'Amico duo is one of the richest in our photography and, an example of this, is the magnificent work that today we add to our Catalog.

Since its inception, landscape photography -a direct inheritor of the pictorial world- revealed the best photographic talents, always in search and capture of the beauty that nature offers us; as early as the 19th century, British landscapers such as George Washington Wilson and others stood out.

It is precisely along these lines that the authors Facio and D'Amico present us with a wonderful record of the disturbing mystery that forests always generate; the tall and leafy trunks that rise towards the sky, contrast with the few rays of light that descend towards the darkness of the foliage, definitely a poem of high visual impact. Due to its great beauty, the work was selected by its authors as a present of happiness and friendship. Later they went on their way independently, signing their works separately.

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