Francesco Zanot

A long, friendly conversation between the American artist Alec Soth and the Italian curator and critic Francesco Zanot. Analyzing his most famous photographs as well as others that have nev - er been published or are virtually unknown, Soth reflects upon his career as a photographer. Each picture gives rise to a chapter of its own, an original thought or reflection. Soths images are shuffled together here to form new sequences: tracing the threads of memories, addressing cul - tural issues and references, and thus creating unforeseen and unforesee - able connections. Storytelling, use of colour and black and white, staged and candid approaches and personal issues are just some of the topics discussed in the book, resulting in a combination of images and words that constitutes a deep analysis of Soths work as well as a manual on the reading of photography itself.

Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot

Ping Pong Conversations

Walter Guadagnini

Published on the occasion of the great exhibition staged at CAMERA? Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, the volume retraces the history and legend of?paparazzi?? a photographic and cultural phenomenon born during the years in which Rome was considered?Hollywood on the Tiber River?. The 120 images portray the features of the protagonists of that season? especially the divas and stars of the silver screen, in addition to the photographs illustrating the wild nights in Via Veneto between the 1950s and 1960s. Photos by Tazio Secchiaroli, Marcello Geppetti, Elio Sorci, Ron Galella and many other prominent figures of the time make up (together with pages out of the magazines in which they were published) a fresco of popular communication from back then. Once the heroic season of paparazzi came to an end, that language became a sort of code used in different artistic and commercial contexts, as demonstrated in the final part of the volume by the images of the leading names in today?s photography scene such as Alison Jackson, Armin Linke and Ellen von Unwerth.00Exhibition: CAMERA? Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy (13.09.2017 - 07.01.2018).

Paparazzi!

Charlotte Cotton

Frits Gierstberg

Catalog of a traveling exhibition held in Barcelona, May 28 - August 28, 2016, Madrid, September 12, 2016 - January 15, 2017, Turin, May 11 - August 13, 2017, and Rotterdam, September 9, 2017-January 7, 2018.

Bruce Davidson

Architect, designer, writer, skier, racing driver and stunt pilot, Carlo Mollino placed photography in a wholly privileged role in the pantheon of his languages and interests. He used it at a means of expression, producing works that were both classical and experimental, and as a fundamental instrument for the documentation of his work and his daily life. From a theoretical point of view, he provided an important impulse to the historic and aesthetic study of this means, contributing to its transition into the system of art. With over 450 illustrations, this book fully investigates the relationship between Mollino and photography, from his first architectural shots to the Polaroids of his later years, placing him within the history of the discipline.--Publisher description.

Carlo Mollino - Photographs, 1934-1973

Francesco Jodice. Panorama. Ediz. italiana e inglese

Simon Baker

Erik Kessels

The Many Lives of Erik Kessels presents the highly anticipated first illustrated survey of this pioneering and influential curator, editor, and artist whose varied experiments with photography and photographic archives have allowed us to reconsider the medium's vernacular and narrative possibilities in today's inundated image landscape. People consume photographs, says Kessels, they don't look at them anymore. This volume is a primer on how to look--and how to better understand the hybrid practice of this artist who defies categorization. Including more than twenty of the artist's series and features essays by Simon Baker, Hans Aarsman, and curator Francesco Zanot, The Many Lives of Erik Kessels is published in conjunction with a major midcareer retrospective at CAMERA-Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin, Italy.

Francesco Zanot

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