Urban Landscape and Horror Vacui, spectacularity of a distorted perception

Abstract

In this article, the very original urban landscape perception caused by the emergency after the 2020' New Coronavirus Pandemic event will be discussed and analyzed. The instruments of pho¬tography, intended as tools of representation will be applied to this specific environment, then used as a base of reflection about the perception of the changes in the urban environment and the effects of this perception on people. Most of the approaches conducted on social media and the newspapers have pointed to putting in evidence the spectacular empty cities 'as never seen before, which thing is correct and underlines a unique condition otherwise almost impossible to experience. The total lock-down caused by the emergency made it impossible to move from a view of the urban landscape to another, where most of the people were able to see such an emp¬tiness only for their town, maybe just for their neighbourhood and maybe just from some lucky windows. The global condition will be watched not simply by composing together the pictures exhibited online and in the newspaper, but using a specific set of images, created in the days of the emergency that will comment and describe the contents of the article.