C41 Magazine – Issue 7 (Bellissimo)

C41 Magazine Issue 7 (Bellissimo) is out now. Issue 7 of C41 Magazine revolves around one word: Bellissimo. Nowadays the common standard of what is beautiful has radically changed. Time ago beauty was related to a concept of absolute perfection. In this issue C41 questions the meaning of objective beauty. “Is beauty in the eye of the beholder”? C41 wants to tell stories of beauty researchers who come from the most varied fields.

We have collected several points of view from different personalities, we have gathered the voices of numerous photographers and visual artists called to express their point of view on the theme Beautiful through pictures, interviews and words. Jackson Bowley, the photographer of the new cover, took us to reflect on the meaning of objective beauty in the world of fashion, talking about a contemporary beauty, full of subtle references to the past. Bowley, focuses on the importance of photographic archives, which allows to keep a material memory of what happened. We interviewed Carl & Katharine Kostyal who in different ways, are both in constant search for beauty. We entered the house Pozzati, where through an interview with the the daughter and son of Concetto, Maura and Jacopo, we analyzed their point of view about a life lived in order to create and search for beauty. We have collected numerous points of view and different facets about the topic. We talked about the beauty of the heat, the cold, the chaos, the unusual and the new through the eyes of many photographers and visual artists (Maurizio Annese, B612 Studio, Aleksey Kondratyev, Emily Stein, Stefano Cerio, Jiaxi Yang, Andrea Chronopoulos, Elisabeth Hogeman, Ronni Campana, Ashley Armitage, Kamisalak, Catalina Kulczar, Jacopo Benassi, Marco Argüello, Emilie Thalund, Maria Teresa Salvati).

C41 Magazine is a Milan-based magazine of contemporary visual art from all over the world. We’re interested in lifestyle, fashion, design, outdoors, and creative communities. Through our viewers’ lenses, we tell the stories. C-41 is a chromogenic colour print film developing process. Also well-known as CN-16 by Fuji, CNK-4 by Konica, and AP-70 by AGFA, it’s the most popular film process in use, with the most photofinishing labs devoting at least one machine to this development process.

Details

300 pages, offset printed and perfect bound, black and white on uncoated paper, cove by Jackson Bowley