Quaderni di Gente di Fotografia is a sort of map to find one’s way in the Italian photographic world. Our Quaderni widen the horizons of photographic research by giving known and unknown talents the opportunity to come into the limelight. Being catalogues, they also aim at preserving the beauty of a project, which might otherwise fade after its exhibition. Thanks to Gente di Fotografia Edizioni’s distribution channels, our Quaderni reach specialised libraries and photography lovers. They also come at an affordable price, though offering the maximum editorial accuracy and quality. Quaderni di Gente di Fotografia are on the photographers’ side.
Author: Andrea Calestani
Texts: Roberto Mutti, Paolo Nizzola
Pages: 84
Languages: Italian/English
Year: 2023
Format: 210x160 mm
Binding: Stitched hardcover, white capitals, square spine
ISBN 978-88-906116-9-8
€ 28,00
There are places where the past and the present meet and almost merge into a plot whose charm is hard to resist. The rain wets the car wind shield with small, boring drops, transforming it into a screen on which the images flow in black and white full of an ancient attraction. The photographer's gaze crosses it to linger on a landscape whose geometric rigour he captures: the bridge that defines the horizon has the imposing solemnity of a church facade but the image becomes dynamic in the lower part crossed diagonally as it is by the line of the parapet that runs along the Naviglio. Today the rare passers-by pay a distracted glance to that iron, those tie rods, those bolts. Yet these elements still retain the signs of an ancient civilization where iron represented modernity, the strength that knew how to resist the ravages of time, the challenge to the future, the same audacity that still characterizes the arches of the railway stations. Andrea Calestani approaches the Navigli with the curiosity of someone who has already experienced Milan in distant years but who is now rediscovering it when faced with places he had never visited.
(from the introduction by Roberto Mutti)
Author: Paolo Simonazzi
Texts: Sandro Parmiggiani, Claudio Gavioli
Pages: 84
Languages: Italian/English
Year: 2021
Format: 16x20
Binding: Stitched paperback binding
ISBN 9788890611629
€ 20,00
Someone who is called Lenin must have a certain destiny. Strong is the imprinting, the connotation of the struggle of the peasants, the popular conscience, the great Communist dream dashed upon the rocks of Soviet dictatorship, but which in our Emilia part of the Po valley, has remained an unrealised utopia. Therefore, those who bear what is more of an honour than a burden may be understood if they dedicate their existence to the simple life of the fields, painted with the colours of the countryside, scented with the smell of hay and stables, framed by the sunsets when the grass changes colour. It is the work in the fields and the peace of nature that brings humans closer to poetry. The poetry of things and the soul, a language that feeds on the vibrations of the damp, fertile earth which at other times is also arid.[...]
The photographic gaze of Paolo Simonazzi perfectly captures the nature of the objects and brings them back to life in their essence made of pastel colours, creative chaos, fragments of a lived life. The opaque mirror which reflects the old typewriter, the brass lamp that hangs from a ceiling of warn beams, the old broken down Jaguar, almost an oxymoron in the proletarian context it is nestled in, the stable with its crooked doors opened out where the animals feed on light and freedom far from the dark mechanised farms, the bizarre clock with the image of Che Guevara on the handmade doily on the dresser, the pendulum on the wall and the old photo of a football team in black-and-white: this is the universe that lives again thanks to the sensitive exploring lens of Simonazzi, the world of objects that seem to stand guard with silent testimony over the peaceful passing of the seasons, when, after the winter, as Zucchero Fornaciari, another child of these lands, sings, the snowfields bloom. A small world, but with a great heart.
Author: Giuseppe Pagano
Texts: Giovanna Gammarota
Pages: 96
Languages: Italian/German/English
Year: 2018
Format: 210x210 mm.
Binding: Stitch bound with headbang
ISBN 978-88-95388-33-5
€ 32,00
Giuseppe Pagano’s journey in the world of
Alberto Giacometti commences with the small stones placed on the sculptor’s
grave, in Stampa, at the local cemetery surrounded by the high rock faces of
Val Bregaglia. From that moment on, and on several occasions, he keeps
returning to this valley in pursuit of the evidence of a suspended transition:
“I could feel that that place was calling me” – he said – “everywhere I looked
I could see unequivocal signs, as though his presence were blocked in that place”. It is only through death that
man is, in some way, freed. Death makes life solemn and so, as Berger says,
“the essence of Giacometti’s work is the awareness of death”.
Autor: Carlo Desideri
Texts: Antonella Cilento
Pages: 132
Languages: Italian/English
Year: 2017
Format: 200x200 mm.
Binding: Stitch bound with headbang
ISBN 978-88-95388-29-8
€ 18,00
If each narrative, as Algirdas J.
Greimas states, has thresholds, then cities too have entrances, borders and
contours. Naples has often been conquered from below, taking advantage of its
ancient Greek aqueduct to enter the city; in fact Naples has an underground and
conspicuous contour with no light, made of age-old, dark waters. For
centuriesmits beauties have been approached by the sea, then inland journey
being long and tiresome. And if the old heart of the city beats without the sun
and sea, as in Caravaggio’s paintings and Anna Maria Ortese’s novels, its
contours, even the most distant ones like those
of the splendid Campi Flegrei, are rather flooded by light. \...\
Carlo
Desideri has done a radiograph of its coasts and novelists, pursuing through his
photographs those places which have been endlessly described by writers and
voyagers.
Author: Fausto Meli
Texts: Gigliola Foschi
Pages: 180
Languages: Italiano/Inglese
Format: 280 x 210 mm.
Binding: Stitch bound with headbang
ISBN 978-88-95388-27-4
€ 32,00
Nocturnal places like suggestions which surface from the darkness of a virtual canvas. Unusual dwellings and spaces in which the lunar, artificial light seems to blend with the wind to create new forms and original visions, in which the invisible becomes perceptible... or perhaps these are simply moods, amplified by the dark.
Pages: 64
Texts: Giovanni Bucci, Amedeo Fusco e Antonella Monzoni
Author: Antonella Monzoni
Format: 220x170 mm.
Binding: Hardcover
Languages: Italian/English
ISBN 978-88-95388-28-1
€ 10,00
Pages: 176
Texts: Valerio Dehò e Antonio Giusa
Author: Luisa Menazzi Moretti
Format: 165×225 mm.
Binding: Stitch bound with headbang
Languages: Italian/English
ISBN 978-88-95388-24-3
€ 20,00
Pages: 84
Texts: Clelia Belgrado, Franco Carlisi, Carla Iacono
Author: Carla Iacono
Format: 165×205 mm.
Binding: Hardback, stitch bound with headbang, laminated soft touch
Release: 2015
Languages: Italian/English
ISBN 978-88-95388-23-6
€ 20,00
Pages: 112
Texts: Andrea Attardi, Franco Carlisi, Annarita Curcio, Manuela De Leonardis, Carlo Gallerati, Barbara Martusciello, Enrico Nicolò e Augusto Pieroni
Author: Enrico Nicolò
Format: 220×220 mm.
Binding: stitched paperback binding
Content: 51 analog colour photographs (fifty single frames of colour reversal films (slides) and one colour negative frame)
Release: 2015
Languages: Italian/English
ISBN 978-88-95388-22-9
€ 24,00
Pages: 164
Texts: Massimo Mussini
Author: Giuliano Ferrari
Format: 165×205 mm.
Binding: Hardback, stitch bound with headbang, laminated soft touch cover
Language: Italian/English
ISBN 978-88-95388-21-2
€ 24,00
When Luigi Ghirri was organizing the exhibition Viaggio in Italia
(1984), Giuliano Ferrari was still at the very beginning of his
professional career, but photography had been at the centre of his
attention for some time already and he had certainly not missed the
novel proposals in that collective exhibition. […] The decision to work
on the topic of travel was not a casual one, because in the European
culture, at least since the Renaissance period, travel in Italy
was considered a way of getting to know the main cultural models:
antique ruins, great Renaissance paintings and landscapes in
general. Travelling was thus a way of getting to know, gaining this
knowledge is not merely a question of seeing but requires a mental
effort to make a critical observation in order to memorise, it
stimulates any doubts we have on the cause and consequences of the
things we see and leads us to compare our own experiences with our new
knowledge.