In 1977 Pietro Mattioli took portraits in Zurich’s first Punk and New Wave nightclub. Their reduced and austere aesthetics followed a simple formula: the sitters were photographed with a flashlight in front of a neutral background, a fast and immediate look that was as outrageously sensationalist as it was coolly narcissistic. Mattioli created portraits that still look as fresh as if they were taken last night. They are combined with views of modernist housing tracts. Their juxtaposition atmospherically hints at the epochal shifts that took place in the late 1970s, proving that style sometimes indeed does presage the future. The portraits are inside views from the incubator of what would later be hailed as “postmodernism.” They are part of the immediate pre-history of the moment celebrated by this once inflationary term that in the meantime has as mysteriously and silently disappeared.

1977年、Pietro Mattioliはチューリッヒで最初のパンクとニューウェーブのナイトクラブでポートレイトを撮った。
控えめで禁欲的な美学の元、シンプルな手法を採用し、無機質な背景の前に立たせたモデルをフラッシュを使って撮影した。また、素早く瞬間的に撮った写真は非常にセンセーショナルで冷たくナルシスティックでもあった。Mattioliは、まるでそれが昨夜撮られたばかりかというほど新鮮なポートレイトを撮影している。
これらの写真をモダニズム住居の写真と組み合わせているのだが、これら一連の写真は、1970年代後半に起こった新しい時代への切り替わりの空気感をほのめかしている。このポートレイトが、のちの”ポストモダニズム”へとつながっていくのだ。
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