Black is a special color: rich, shiny and elegant on the one hand; severe, judicious and solemn on the other. It has gone through history in the form of a simple charcoal and has been explored by artists in its many forms, expressions and potential, intertwining more than any other color with writing, graphics and design, photography and cinema. Another little story of colors written by Valentina Zucchi and illustrated by Francesca Zoboli to tel

A central figure in the international panorama of photography in the second half of the twentieth century, Luigi Ghirri was not only a prolific author of images, but also a critic, curator, essayist and promoter of a new photographic culture that placed this language at the center of the debate on contemporary art. In the volume we are presenting, all of Ghirri's essays are collected together with a selection of interviews he gave throughou

Until now, there has never been a linear and exhaustive history that provides a historiographical account of one of Italy's longest-running LGBT associations: the Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale Mario Mieli, founded in the heart of Rome exactly 40 years ago. This book contributes to the creation, fundamental for the consolidation of any historical identity, of a coherent, integral and official narrative, which can constitute a well-structured documentary analysis of the movement and its phases, a valuabl

'Bad Gays' collects the lives of those gay characters we would struggle to call champions of LGBT+ rights: the liars, the powerful, the careerists, the criminals. From Alexander the Great to Ernst Röhm, from Yukio Mishima to Lawrence of Arabia, our history is littered with them. Every minority that struggles to emerge from marginalisation, for recognition or for survival itself, sooner or later comes to terms with the question of who should be the face of its

D for Dummy Woman, M for Monster’s Tools, S for Style Defense, U for Unstable Signs – the Glossary of Undisciplined Design looks into undisciplinarity as a feminist unpacking of the field of graphic design, of dogmatic rules, discriminatory structures and a particularly one-sided canon. Carried by a decidedly fragmentary and collective backbone, the GUD handbook combines a multitude of theories and narratives of varying densities – from visual essay, hands-on experiment, interview or advertorial, to