{"product_id":"rodney-smith-1","title":"Rodney Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe work of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRodney Smith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1947–2016) is above all an invitation to insinuate oneself into a world suspended between illusion and reality. Far from the modern conventions of documentary photography or realism, Smith has created a unique language on the boundary between these two worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of his sublime, supreme images exerts a real fascination over the viewer, for they are the site of polarity and duality, of the utterance and its contradiction, of the place and its reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRodney Smith is not content merely to document the world; he transforms it and magnifies it, and only photography is capable of delivering, in a flash, his strange visions, his kind of visual impulses, as stunning and explosive as if they were about to break the sound barrier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText in English and Italian.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57409308754302,"sku":"NW9788836658879","price":24.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9788836658879.jpg?v=1778701520","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/rodney-smith-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}