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Emiliano Ponzi

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Bukowski - Diner

One from a collection covers for a series of books by Charles Bukowski. Musica per Organi Caldi, conveys how Bukowski banters on American society and at the same time, how he is inseparably part of that very society he critiques.

Musica per Organi Caldi
Emiliano Ponzi

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Bukowski - Orgy

One from a collection covers for a series of books by Charles Bukowski. Scrivo Poesie Solo per Portarmi a Letto le Ragazze imagines a man sleeping with several woman with 1970s hairstyles in a huge bed.

Scrivo Poesie Solo per Portarmi a Letto le Ragazze
Emiliano Ponzi

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Bukowski - Passed Out Threesome

One from a collection covers for a series of books by Charles Bukowski. Compagno di Sbronze depicts booze, girls and a place to crash after an anarchist night awake until sunrise. A ‘Polaroid’ of one of many nights Bukowski spent following his pure instincts. The presence of American culture and settings is often subtly expressed in this series; the car here resembles a Cadillac model.

Compagno di Sbronze
Emiliano Ponzi

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Bukowski - Pool

One from a collection covers for a series of books by Charles Bukowski. Il Capitano e Fuori a Pranzo, a diary Bukowski wrote a few years before his departure of his reflections on death and absence of regrets. The scene is of explicit sex in a pool, nothing to hide: another affirmation of the Bukowski will to do whatever crosses his mind.

Il Capitano e Fuori a Pranzo
Emiliano Ponzi

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Dante's Inferno - Treachery

Treachery, Dante’s 9th circle, part of a series for the book Inferno. Satan was the first to commit treachery against God by challenging Him and was expelled from paradise. In this image, we show how treachery against God is still being committed in the modern world. In this case, the priest performs treason against God by going to prostitutes and breaking his covenant to abstain from sex as a Catholic priest must vow.

Inferno