For his longterm project, titled Death of an Image, Italian-born, New York-based photographer Andrea Galvani brought together uncanny combinations of objects (and, in some cases, employed actual smoke and mirrors) to “create disturbances in viewers’ physical perception of landscapes”. Perhaps the most powerful example is his placing of a white horse, its head seemingly shrouded by balloons, against a juxtaposing, jagged mountain—to profoundly surreal, and strangely pleasing, effect.
