Italy

The photo volume 'Eggs and Asperagus' by Marcello GALVANI is not a factual documentation of the place Massalombarda. It is a diary, a memory box, where important meanings - not public and general, but private and esoteric - are contained.

Out-of-print volume 'Sanctuary' by Gregory CREWDSON is set in the Italian film town of Cinecittà, where masterpieces by Frederico Fellini & Roberto Rossellini were once made. For his atmospheric black-and-white shots, he worked mainly with natural light.

The 'Protest Box' compiled by British photographer as well as photo book expert Martin Parr contains five facsimile editions of out-of-print photo volumes by Enrique BOSTELMANN, Paolo GASPARINI, Dirk ALVERMANN, Kauz KITAI and Paolo MATIOLI & Anna CANDIANI

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 264 pp., 266 b/w ills., 1.250 gr., bilingual texts: English / Japanese - Ltd. to only 500 copies

The book 'Verso Nord' is the result of a collaboration between Guido GUIDI & Gerry JOHANSSON during a campaign in Castelfranco. The former focused on the historic city center with his large format camera and the latter on the suburbs in his medium format.

In photo volume 'Rome After Rome' by Joel STERNFELD, which includes images from its predecessor, 'Campagna Romana,' (1992) as well as numerous unpublished images, the photographer explores who modern Romans are and their relationship to ancient splendor.

'Sonata' by Aaron SCHUMAN is inspired by Goethe's Italian Journey (1786-1788). The photographer invites us to explore an Italy shaped as much by the spirit as by the world, and imbued with the harmony and dissonance of its cultural and historical heritage

Using the Dolomite mountains as an example, Marina CANEVE asks the viewers in her volume 'Are They Rocks or Clouds?' to consider the risks people take in an effort to live comfortably while exploring the limits of how they interact with the natural world.

This out-of-print volume 'Maniera Moderna' is dedicated to the multifaceted work of Carlo MOLLINO. His surrealist roots can be seen in the black-and-white photographs and interiors of the 1930s to his later works as well as his staged erotic Polaroids.

In banking circles, 'PIGS' means the states Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain. For his book, photographer Carlos SPOTTORNO took on the design of the manager's magazine 'The Economist' and integrated his own recordings in order to unite prejudice and reality