Italy

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 29,5 x 2 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

Photo book 'In Veneto' contains a selection of hitherto unpublished works that Guido GUIDI took between 1984 and 1989. The visited places in provinces of Treviso, Vicenza, Padua & Venice, bearing testimony to the process of change of rural area in 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 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Rome' by Joel STERNFELD, which includes images from its predecessor, 'Campagna Romana,' (1992) as well as numerous unpublished images, the photographer explores who modern Romans are and their relationship to ancient splendor.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.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 2 cm., 136 pp., 67 color ills +1 pictogram, bilingual texts: English / Italian

The catalog volume contains photographs by Vera LUTTER that she took with a camera obscura. These capture more than a single moment, but an entire period of time, thus questioning what is conventionally understood as the documentary value of photography.