Franco Vaccari

“It is not easy to define what the technological unconscious is: perhaps the clearest way, which should then be argued, is to say that all the tools produced by man and in particular those of communication act as if they obeyed an unconscious inherent in the tool itself and independent of who uses the tool”.

A graduate in Physics, from the beginning he did not use photography to produce mimetic images, but his photography wanted to become a trace, an imprint of a presence, which often also involves interaction with the public. Emblematic are his “Real Time Exhibitions”, exhibitions in which the material that is exhibited is constructed during the exhibition itself, almost always with the participation of visitors. Like the exhibition “Leave a photographic trace of your passage” at the 1972 Biennale, when a photomatic booth was exhibited and visitors were invited to leave a photographic trace of their passage.
He was a professor of Photographic Iconography at the Milan Polytechnic.