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POSITANO

AMALFI COAST, ITALY

Image Number 109

Positano is a perched village on the Amalfi Coast south of Naples.   It was a relatively poor fishing village during the first half of the twentieth century. It began to attract large numbers of tourists in the 1950s, especially after John Steinbeck published his essay about Positano in Harper's Bazaar in May, 1953: "Positano bites deep", Steinbeck wrote. "It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone."

TECHNICAL NOTES

The image was taken with a tripod-mounted Phase One 645 Camera at ISO 50. Exposure of 1/160 second and aperture F6.3.   45 mm Phase One lens.   The image was captured on a Phase One IQ180 80 megapixel digital back.