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Matthias Schaller: Controfacciata
Richard Dyer

Steidl & Partners, 2008

German-born photographer Matthias Schaller discovered the architectural phenomenon of the controfacciata (counter-facade)--a sort of hall or corridor built out from the first floor of a building--while exploring the palaces along the edges of Venice's canals. From 2004 to 2007, he centered his lens on the twilit windows inside these spaces, which imbue the musty elegance of the busts, furniture and paintings that fill them with an ethereal ...

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