Fotografia italiana 1955

Storaro

Vittorio Storaro
Arti Grafiche Marchesi

Mapplethorpe. The complete flowers

Robert Mapplethorpe, Herbert Muschamp
teNeues France

Flower are one of the most common subjects for artwork, yet Mapplethorpe excels at bringing something radically new to his flower photographs. Setting them in a universe apart, their poses are classical, reduced to a series of essential forms. Their compositions are profoundly simple but mask a complex dynamic. Each one is evocative, and almost always sexually charged. When photographed by Mapplethorpe, these delicate organisms become almost muscular in their raw power. AUTHOR: Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 and was raised in Long Island, New York. He received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. By the early 1980s, he challenged the definition of photography with new techniques and formats. Mapplethorpe continued to create powerful images until his death from AIDS in 1989. 53 colour & 227 duotone photos

Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur Coleman Danto
TeNeues

This major, long out-of-print survey, widely regarded as the definitive overview of Mapplethorpe's black-and-white photography, is once again available in a new, updated edition. It presents a comprehensive selection of Mapplethorpe's nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still lifes and other works, including his best known and most controversial images. Mapplethorpe's choices were both innovative and bold, and his work has continued to resonate since his early death in 1989. His cutting-edge use of homoerotic and other challenging themes has become embedded in our culture, with pervasive echoes not only in the work of other artists but in mainstream advertising as well.

Fotografia italiana 1955

Gino Oliva
Fantoni & C.

Immagini e documenti Matera

Mario Cresci
Edizioni Meta

In the South Bronx of America

Mel Rosenthal
Curbstone Press

Residents of New York City's South Bronx neighborhood live amidst what is frequently described as the most severe and widespread poverty in any U.S. metropolitan area. In the South Bronx of America is a work which, through documentary photographs, counterpointed with statements by residents and by newspaper reports and statistical information, offers both an intimate view of life in this neighborhood and a context for understanding the last two decades of accelerated social decay. In the words of Penny Coleman, New York Times photographer, In the South Bronx of America, "is important because it is not cynical, because it is a sincere attempt to provide the awareness necessary for change."

Message

Masafumi Sanai
Heibonsha

Le vite di Lee Miller

Antony Penrose
Archinto

New York, 1927: giovane donna dalla bellezza classica, Lee Miller è "scoperta" da Condé Nast, compare sulla copertina di "Vogue" e viene immortalata dai più grandi fotografi del tempo, tra cui Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene e Horst. Parigi, 1928: amica di Eluard e di Picasso, allieva e compagna di Man Ray, inventa con lui la tecnica della solarizzazione, diventa una brillante fotografa e interpreta il ruolo della statua in "Le Sang d'un poète" di Jean Cocteau. Europa, 1944-1945: corrispondente di guerra, è l'unica donna al seguito delle truppe alleate, dalle coste della Normandia ai campi di sterminio, al "nido dell'aquila" di Adolf Hitler in Baviera. Le sue fotografie di Dachau sconvolgono il mondo intero. Queste sono solo tre delle molteplici "vite" di Lee Miller, raccontate dal figlio Antony, nato dalla sua unione con il pittore surrealista Roland Penrose. Di questa eroina sorprendente quanto bella e intrepida, il fotografo David Scherman diceva che "ha incarnato quant'altre mai la nuova donna della metà del Novecento". Arricchito da oltre centocinquanta fotografie in duotone - tra cui anche alcuni ritratti firmati dai più grandi fotografi - il libro ripercorre l'esistenza di quella che fu per certo una delle donne più straordinarie del suo tempo.

Bruce Weber

s.a.
Idea Books

I volti del narratore

Daniel Mordzinski
Ugo Guanda Editore

Resilient

Marco Gualazzini
Contrasto

Giovane fotografia Italiana

Vincenzo Mirisola
Gente di Fotografia