Gesture Italiano, a photo from Naples, Campania

Photographer's Note

Gesture Italiano (Italian must be an easy language for all English-speaking nations))
This picture (a short break in my series about Warszawa) I’d like to dedicate to our dear friend from India (!!!) – to Arnab Chatterjee This is a link to arnabchat

Our friend is flying to Italy soon (maybe even tomorrow?) and he will definitely find lots of those friendly and loud Italians gesticulating vividly.
The scene on the photo I find a very typical, and it presents a classical gesture (see the man on the right and his palm) so common to all the Italians.
Also best greetings to our Italian TE staff, in particular: Gix, Guenther, Paolo and Zanni.

ChrisJ, KevRyan, Paolo, Galmeida, Fixfocus, Gix, nwoehnl ha puntuado esta nota como útil.

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Booz (14347) 2005-05-13 3:30

zdjêciowa dokumentaja portretu psychologicznego typowego w³ocha :) - fajnie pokazane - ta gestykulacja a z drugiej strony elegancja :)
Pozdrówki
Tomek

ChrisJ (160138) 2005-05-13 3:36

Hi Jerzy

A good dual portrait. Excellent dof, sharpness, color & lighting. I like the body language. No translation required!

RGatward (20086) 2005-05-13 3:40

Good candid shot, catching the gesture just right. A shame about the guys in the background above his head, but I guess hard enough just getting his pose right. What was I oging to be surprised about?

davido (1982) 2005-05-13 3:42

Very very funny! These are two portraits really well done.
Regards, David

Zepi (22848) 2005-05-13 4:04

Hello Jerzy !
Excellente image !
J’adore ces italiens ,on leur enlève les mains et ils ne savent plus parler !
Très belle composition !
Beau travail
Amicalement
Sébastien

Paolo (41258) 2005-05-13 4:05

Great portrait Jerzy!
faces are so Napoletane! great colors and light too.
very Italian image!
are you under the Galleria?
thanks, ciao

KevRyan (22956) 2005-05-13 4:06

Hi Jerzy - great postures/gestures - did you ever see the book by Desmond Morris about human gestures - I think it was called Manwatching (but I may have got that wrong). I agree with Richard that the guys over the shoulder are a bit distracting but otherwise a really interesting picture of this 'typical' Italian form of communication.

ciao Kev

PixelTerror (0) 2005-05-13 4:13

Buon Giorno Jerzy,
Italiano e una lingua que se parla con le mani !
I lik ehtis one very much, if we had a cliche theme it would need to be added to this, you captured very well their expressive attitudes and framed it nicely too. Applause (si si, con le mani) !
Have a nice week end,
Jean-Yves

naxius (16685) 2005-05-13 4:38

Hi Jerzy,
This is what we call the Italian touch and I know what I am talking about because, in Nice where I live, lot of italians are coming here ;o
Very good mood you catched.
I love it.
Alex

Galmeida (12559) 2005-05-13 5:04

Hi Jerzy,
Excelent portrait capture you did here, of the two man and the traditional, common and classical Italian gesture. Nice approach, good colors and a different and interesting composition.

WELL DONE and SEEN!
Fernando

MarekP (4750) 2005-05-13 5:15

Lovely street scene, Jerzy. I imagine the two men are speaking about something extremely important like the latest political development in Bhutan or so. You captured their character and the story in the scene very well. Good job.

Marek

Ah_Thong (466) 2005-05-13 5:15

nice photo with very nice composition and framing. you captured the expression and emotiong very well too..!!
tfs
-thong-

Fixfocus (9385) 2005-05-13 5:18

It shure looks very Italian!Good capture of the pose from the talking and from the listening man.A nice daily life scene from Italy.
have a nice weekend,Jerzy!

Graal (103040) 2005-05-13 9:56

Cze¶æ Jurku!
Trochê mnie nie by³o, by³em w Polsce. Tutaj fajny reporta¿, typowi Italianie. Brawo za refleks.
Pozdrawiam,
Aleksander

Gix (3565) 2005-05-13 10:28

Hahaha Jerzy,
but excellent portrait, remembet to me some character so well underlined from Federico Fellini. Almost an icone of somes aspects of Italy.
A big portrait anihow, and normally i newer comment portraits!
Thanks for the 'tribute', even from all the guys here!
ciao, Giorgio

clodreno (0) 2005-05-13 10:32

Hi Jerzy, a typical gesture, that's for sure.. classical
I am sure Arnab will have learned all those before he comes to visit me in Bologna...We'll think about you around a nice pizza...

jajko (775) 2005-05-13 11:21

:)
ladnie wypatrzone, ladnie ujête, juz nie musze jechac do Wloch...
brawo
pozdrawiam, lukasz

nwoehnl (122) 2005-05-13 11:36

A nice scene of the two Italian folks having a chat, Jerzy. The DOF works well enough to isolate them from the background, and in addition to the "typical" gesture I also notice that both of them are quite impeccably dressed. Well captured.

avigur_11 (22535) 2005-05-13 11:45

HA, a very nice daily life scene from Naples, Jerzy. Napoli is so differet from the Northern part of Italy (I've been there for a few hours a few years ago) - it's a kind of old fashioned, and this picture alos looks like it was taken in the 1940's. Very good one.

Nick70 (221) 2005-05-13 16:04

Very Italian indeed. Nicely captured :)

bnallama (3763) 2005-05-13 18:14

I think even without your title, I think we could have guessed the guy's italian origins :-)) Yes that gesture... I like the DoF...
A last smiley b4 I go and get some sleep..
Take care,
Bala

justinovicius (11) 2005-05-13 20:06

.... Great shot! Thank you for sharing it:)

Zanni (6108) 2005-05-14 1:27

It seems my portrait :-))

If you have to meet a Neapolitan in Partenope's Town or perhaps elsewhere it could be useful to have a minimal and sufficiently reliable "hand vocabulary" for a communication of emergency.

The language of the hands , like every type of evolved communication, has also its dialects. Today in the territory of the ancient Kingdom of Naples you can meet inhabitants coming from various regions that indicate two completely different concepts with the same gesture. For example, if you compare the hand vocabulary of a Neapolitan with that one of a Calabrian or a Sicilian you can discover amazing differences, sometimes in little details.

The following gestures are typical in the Neapolitan area, although some of them are present in all South of Italy or even if along the whole Italian peninsula.

from http://www.portanapoli.com/Eng/Culture/cu_gesture.html

Thank's for the greeting Jerzy

kinginexile (2598) 2005-05-14 2:56

Italy thru photography, then? :-)
Definitely italian, this shot is instantly easy to loacte even without note and country.
Very empathic shot, that probably may have had a few around you wonder what the hell you are shooting at!

(great addition with your critique Zanni, too)

nerve (10231) 2005-05-14 4:54

Typical isnt it? they also combine their hands and shake it (forward and backward like making half circles.. i laugh my head off to that!.)
A great catch Jerzy..Very well seen and done..
bw

kdien (9367) 2005-05-14 15:01

Stary, a¿ siê wierzyæ nie chce. Tylko nie mów, ¿e ... Tak w skrócie sobie opowiedzieli. Wspania³y portret starszych panów. Dobry shot. Pozdrawiam, Krzysztof

premels (2400) 2005-05-14 15:11

Hi Jerzy, You captured a nice scene here. They are very expressive indeed. I like the attitude of the man on the left : eyes fixed on the mouth of the speaking hand :)
The shoulders of the speaking man have an amazing angle.
A very natural capture. I like it.

faubry (35447) 2005-05-26 17:00

good expression of these men, very expressive, good colors and sharp
thanks
francine

pawelen (92) 2005-12-16 19:26