Italy

The catalog volume 'Reversing the Eye. Arte povera and Beyond 1960-1975' takes a fresh look at the Arte Povera movement, rarely associated with photography & film. The artistic movement is placed in the social and political context of the time in Italy.

'The Italian Photobook 1931-1941' by Giorgio Grillo traces the short, intense history of (photo)graphic modernism in Italy - as a medium between autonomous visual research and a 'functional' use in the often overlapping areas of advertising & propaganda.

In the book 'Verlassene Ort' (Abandoned Places) various photographers document the beautiful and at the same time eerie atmosphere of places where decay has set in and nature has returned. The history & present of these places are explained in short texts

The out-of-print photo and text volume 'Fotoreportagen 1956-1965' on the work of Dirk ALVERMANN contains in addition to the black and white photographs an excellent article on his photo books penned by the photo book connoisseur Thomas Wiegand.

With reportages from Albania, Italy, Poland, Spain & UK, Dirk ALVERMANN reminds in 'Streiflichter 1956-65' of the richness and diversity of European culture and history. Like fairy tales from ancient times, the b/w images tell of Europe's political roots.

SIGNED COPY. Out of print from the publisher, the biographical volume 'Zwischen den Zeiten. Rhapsody in Schwarzweiß' with over 200 b/w photographs from the 1950s to the 1980s represents the personal balance of the work of the photographer Dirk ALVERMANN.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 x 1 cm., 136 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Brutalist architecture & concrete fascinate Sue BARR (professor of photography, London). With her large format camera, the British woman traversed all of Italy from the Alps to Naples and photographed the previously largely ignored motorway architecture.

Titled 'Anthology,' the photo volume by Italian photographer depicts both brutal murders and the beauty of her native Sicily. The photographer spent her life photographing victims of mafia murders. The book claims to show the real mafia, not the movies.

Out-of-print Photo volume 'Dovere di Cronaca. The Duty to Report' by Letizia BATTAGLIA shows what happened in Sicily in the late 1970s to the early 1980s: a war that the Italian photographer, together with Franco Zecchin, captured without heroic ambitions