Italia

by Calvenzi, Giovanna

• ISBN13: 9788889032008
• ISBN10: 8889032006
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Contrasto Due

Summary

The ultimate photo book that deals with one of the most photographed countries in the world. This passionate, comprehensive visual tale of Italy is accompanied by the images of the greatest photographers from all over the world-those who have documented, recorded, dreamt of, and imagined Italian reality from 1945 until today. Italia has received the Photo District News Best Book Selection. With texts by Guido Furbesco (synthesis of Italian history), Christian Caujolle (neorealism), Carlo Bertelli (monumentalism in photography), Cesare Colombo (magazines), Roberta Valtorta (landscape), Paolo Pietroni (the experience of a creator of periodicals) and Gianni Colonetti (architecture and photography). Photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Sebastiao Salgado, Mario Giacomelli, Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, William Klein, Josef Koudelka, Martin Parr, Joel Sternfeld, Paul Strand, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Eve Arnold, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Ernst Haas, Abbas, Michael Ackermann, Giampietro Agostini, Marco Anelli, Marina Ballo Charmet, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, John Batho, Walter Battistessa, Antonio Biasiucci, Werner Bischof, Aldo Bonasia, Giovanna Borgese, Gianni Borghesan, Luca Bruno, Rene Burri, Romano Cagnoni, Alfredo Camisa, Marcella Campagnano, Luca Campigotto, Mario Carrieri, Vincenzo Castella, Giuseppe Cavalli, Carla Cerati, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Francesco Cito, Cesare Colombo, Mario Cresci, Daniele Dainelli, John Davies, Mario De Biasi, Stefano De Luigi, Carl De Keyzer, Patrick Demarchelier, Raymond Depardon, Pietro Donzelli, Giorgia Fiorio, Franco Fontana, Mauro Galligani, Federico Garolla, Caio Garrubba, Moreno Gentili, Luigi Ghirri, Giancolombo, Gianni Giansanti, Guido Guidi, Arno Hammacher, Thomas Hopker, Frank Horvat, Francesco Jodice, Mimmo Jodice, Richard Kalvar, Sergio Larrain, Herbert List, Giorgio Lotti, Uliano Lucas, Martino Marangoni, Nino Migliori, Riccardo Moncalvo, Paolo Monti, Ugo Mulas, Toni Nicolini, Walter Niedermayr, Claude Nori, Cristina Omenetto, Federico Patellani, Marco Pesaresi, Tino Petrelli, Franco Pinna, Francesco Radino, Piero Raffaelli, Roger Ressmeyer, Fulvio Roiter, Marialba Russo, Roberto Salbitani, Massimo Sciacca, Ferdinando Scianna, Tazio Secchiaroli, Philippe Seclier, Enzo Sellerio, Shobha, Massimo Siragusa, Toni Thorimbert, Angelo Turetta, Massimo Vitali, and Franco Zecchin.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Portrait of a country on its knees	p. 17
Depicting the miracle	p. 37
The years of experiment and commitment	p. 67
The 1980s	p. 91
Beyond the boundaries	p. 117
The birth of vision	p. 174
Paper dreams : news weeklies, 1945-60	p. 180
Neo-realism?	p. 186
Experiencing landscape	p. 192
The discipline of design	p. 198
Confessions of a magazine editor	p. 204
Scanno	p. 212
Luzzara	p. 226
City visions	p. 240
Asylums	p. 254
Venice	p. 268
The fascination of myths	p. 280
Tuna fishing	p. 294
Volcanoes	p. 308
Roman walks	p. 320
Breaches	p. 334
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