“GIORNI DI TANGO” by Lucia Baldini
photo book + compact disc

A marvellous photo book dedicataed to Tango, which puts together a four- years work by Italian photographer Lucia Baldini. She has portraied some of the most important Tango companies around and in her work you can find an introspective and psicological approach which is not very common. Many poems dedicated to tango by famous authors enich the book. Finally, a beautiful free unedited CD with music Luis Rizzo (guitar) and Cesar Stroscio (bandoneon) give you the chance to enjoy the purest essence of Argentina.

Content of book:
128 pages in italian and english
56 artistc blac & white photos
Contains poems by: J.L.Borges, J. Cortàzar, J. Guelman and O. Soriano

Content of the CD:
1 – LUIS RIZZO – Tristesse – 4:49
2 - LUIS RIZZO – Viento d’atono – 3:27
3 - LUIS RIZZO – Solo cuando llueve – 5:05
4 – CESAR STROSCIO – Azul y uos – 4:38
5 - CESAR STROSCIO – a luis Luchi (E.Rovira) – 4:05
6 - CESAR STROSCIO – Milonga del angel (A.Piazzolla) – 4:00
7 - CESAR STROSCIO – Muerte de l’angel – 3:12
8 – LUIS RIZZO – Lo que vendra (A.Piazzolla) – 4:09
9 - LUIS RIZZO – La esquina – 4:25

The Photographic ART of Lucia Baldini

Allready a successful photographer which some twenty years experience in the music industry and several exibitions behind her, Lucia Baldini’s interest in tango was captured when she turned her hand to stage photography and began presenting the resulting work at tango festivals. From this growing fashination, her first book “Giorni di Tango” developed, and moments of tango collected over a three-years period from 1993-1996 and dedicated to the discovery and passion of the tango culture.

Accompanying her photographers are poems by famous authors such as Borges, Cortazar, Guelman and Soriano, and the book comes complete with a CD of music featuring Luis Rizzo (guitar) and Cesar Stroscio (bandoneon).

The strenght of Baldini’s style is such that it threatens to overpower her subjects, so you feel the moments captured only exixt for the camera and that the mood is more hers then theirs, but it is through this fetishist approach that she succeeds in harnessing the melancholy and ephemeral aspectcs of life, of a look. Layers of light and diffused textures lend a soft and sensual feel, throwing a romantic veil over the otherwise art-house perfection of the compositions.

“Anime Altrove”, her latest work to emerge, offers a more informal perpective. With the full title traslating as “Souls Elsewhere-The Places and People of Argentine Tango in Italy”, this book is a photographic documentation of the tango scene in her natie country. The natural settings and movement-filled shots allow for more realism than seen in the posed-for stills of “Giorni di Tango”. All the quantities of this distinctive photographer are still there, however, and it is surely testimony to Baldini’s talent that her style cannot be diluited.

Jane Solomon – Tango Review - Spring 2002