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Vulcano
Eroticism of the Marginal |
| Vulcano is a photographer that developed his work between the `40s and` 50s, in Caracas, Venezuela. We know very little about him; we could say that he is an anonymous person: we don’t know his real name and the occupation to the he was devoted to in his public life. |
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Apparently he was
connected to the world of the “show business”, especially to the live
“portraits”; static scenes of nude women that used to be performed in the
Caracas Theater. Parallel to this, Vulcano began to develop work that can
called the Erotic of the Marginal, evident in the atmospheres where the photos are taken,
the situations and the models. These marginal aesthetics that he developed was
parallel to the aesthetic movement of the moment, creating a market- as there has always
been since the beginning of photography- of erotic, nude; or pornographic
images. |
| In his autopotriat,
Vulcano becomes an active part of the photograph in direct relationship with the model; he
becomes part of the game. These models are part of the town people, women he
convinced of progressively getting undressed.
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| They could have been prostitutes or workers in night , and cabarets. In all the images there is a disassociation between the face and the situation: the body is an anonymous person; the face seems to be of another person that doesn't form part of the action. |
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These photographs are an interesting visual inspection of the aesthetics of the “ other side” where other codes exist that are not the socially accepted ones. In the models you feel an erosion of the life, any one of them could be the grandmother of one of us... |
| According to the scarce
investigations, Vulcano did the coloring that has been performed on the copy but, in
my opinion, there were other hands that intervened on the photos. |
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