Atlante Di Napoli

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Summary: Enchantment by Air--Napoli Displayed
Review: LIke its sister volume,Sevilla Forma Urbis, this luxuriously produced coffee-table sized book is a feast for the eyes. Each glossy, highly-detailed photograph, in gorgeous color, is one of hundreds of arial views of Napoli, Italy. Atlante Di Napoli is an outstanding example of photography as art. Each crisp, sharp photograph has an accompanying page with a non-detailed outline or template of the featured area, and these outline pages would provide hundreds of fascinating design elements for many art mediums. What sets this book apart is the apparently artless arrangements of the buildings, objects and natural formations that comprise Napoli. In the end, these photographs become less a factual record of the current metropolitan and coastline real estate and more an artistic exploration of color and pattern--a sort of arial example of Chaos Theory. Coastal lines, strings of bright red taxicabs, buildings snuggled next to each other all constitute a brilliant, chaotic design that somehow seems artifical and natural simultaneously. Artists, photographers, travelers and students of life will treasure this gem of a book!