The Italy&Italy project arose from a meeting between Pasquale Bove, photojournalist, and Luca Santese, photographer and co-founder of Cesura. From Bove’s vast archives, comprising more than 250,000 shots, Santese selected 306 produced between 1985 and 2000 as the conceptual cornerstones of Italy&Italy, following precise editing criteria. The central intent of Santese’s editing in the Bove’s archive was to create and organically articulate the iconography of those years starting from a fragm

“Above all, how are we to imagine a relation between a thing and its image, between matter and thought, since each of these terms possesses, by definition, only that which is lacking to the other?” Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory In Bergson’s Matter and Memory the philosopher introduces two different operative modes of image perception: one of subjective idealism, the other of materialistic realism. The realist, argues Bergson, relies mainly on objective

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Lungomare is publishing the volume AS IF - 16 Dialogues about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement. Starting from dialogue as a form of relationship that Lungomare has adopted over its 20 years of artistic and cultural activity, and in order to approach themes, people and places, whilst always pushing a little beyond its own boundaries and horizons, the book weaves together 51 voices of people invited to express their own vision for reneg

This new publication from Justine Kurland presents two interwoven narratives drawn from the road trips across the United States that she undertook with her young child between the years 2005 and 2010. The first thread is a sequence of arresting large-format photographs of her child and herself, disentangled from the renowned images of roads, trains, infrastructure, and fellow travelers Kurland was making at the same time. Revisiting these photographs, Kurland suggests a clarified reading of them as

Dixit Algorizmi. The Garden of Knowledge is an investigation into the origin of the myth and narrative of modern technologies within contemporary artistic practices, exploring their forgotten roots and their resonances with distant places, times and cultures. The book offers a reflection on the seminal work of Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, a scientist and scholar born and raised in the city of Khiva (now Uzbekistan). al-Khwārizmīʼs treatise Algoritmi de nume