Leporello will be closed from SaturdFrom September, the bookstore will be open only on Thursday and Friday afternoons, in addition to days when there are presentations or workshops. We will still often be there, perhaps even in the mornings, but before you stop by check google, the website or our social media, or just give us a call. It will always be possible to come by appointment, by calling and or emailing us at info@leporello-books.com
Close

February 2022

Displacement

Displacement is a journey in the cities that change because of abandonment, that rebuild themselves and ruin. It is a journey into loss, without it being a disappearance. The loss of a body-city that we don't want to mourn, but rather find again in the forms in which intimacy and community are sought, as freely as possible. We found ourselves in the city of L'Aquila to narrate the new life generated by the loss of the
โ€ฆ

February 2024

Let Me Sow Love (signed)

"Let Me Sow Love" is the result of the intimate relationship between the author and his community: quiet and delicate, the photographs depict everyday life in all its simple and luminous beauty. The images go to constitute a cross-section of the modern-day United States without any desire to raise criticism or make judgments; the sequence weaves poetic visual compositions, alternating between portraits and glimpses of landscapes, both natural and urban, to bring to life a tale of f
โ€ฆ

February 2022

Blueprint 2017-20

Blueprint 2017โ€“20 explores how the mass media has influenced political debates and democratic processes during the process of Brexit. Norman Behrendt's photographs of Brexit-related video material examine what sort of imagery is used to influence people by stirring up deep-seated attitudes around national pride, immigration and lack of control. The blue color of the cyanotypes reflects the invisible influence of the European Union on the United Kingdom. When Norman Behrendt arrived in London from Berlin in
โ€ฆ

January 2021

Soft Copy Hard Copy

In 2018 Stephan Keppel started collecting works and stories of Amsterdam; the city where he lives, and works. The city is constantly changing, and so are the visible, invisible, social and historic structures. In Soft Copy Hard Copy Stephan Keppel explores and organizes these structures, creating an organic index of the city. This book is part of Keppelโ€™s ongoing research on the public space, urban structures and reproduction, and is combining his own photographs wit
โ€ฆ

April 2020

LO SGUARDO DELLO STATO

The perspective with which the State looks at society and nature is intentionally ultra-simplifying because, to understand (and control) everything, it must inevitably compress the diversity of the territory and its population within standardized grids that are easier to manage. Reconstructing the epochal passage that led to the current configuration of power - through the establishment of maps, censuses, fixed surnames, cadastral lists, weights and unified measures ... - is essential to grasp the art of modern government, with it
โ€ฆ

June 2019

FOXTROT GATE – CYPRUS

The book Foxtrot Gate โ€“ Cyprusย is part of a series of publications about nations at war, or in crisis; conceived by Giovanna Silva, they tell the stories of different countries through photographs of their multifaceted landscapes. In the case of Cyprus, Silva has attempted to decipher Nicosiaโ€™s recent past and contested present, their symbols and physical structures โ€“ along with related erasures, which are inscribed in the landscape of the divided capital itself, and in
โ€ฆ