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March 2020

CIVIL IMAGINATION: ONTOLOGIA POLITICA DELLA FOTOGRAFIA

According to Ariella Azoulay, understanding photography does not just mean evaluating photographs. The photo is only an event in that process that constitutes a photograph and always involves an actual or potential spectator in the relationship between the photographer and the photographed person. Moving the focus from the product to the practitioner, defined in Civil Imagination, underlines the way which images can strengthen and resist the oppressive reality imposed on photographed persons. Azoulay sustains tha
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March 2020

INTERVISTE

In the eighties, Giovanna Calvenzi, a newcomer in journalism, proposed to the magazine Il Fotografo to interview a series of authors who particularly appreciated. In scattered order: Bill Brandt, David Bailey, Chris Steele-Perkins, Arthur Tress, Andrรฉ Kรฉrtesz, William Klein. The magazine agreed and, even more incredible thing for her, even the photographers agreed to meet her, to talk to her and be photographed. For some years, Calvenzi continued to conduct interviews for Il Fot
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April 2020

DEMONSTRATION ROOMS

In 1926 El Lissitzky created an unconventional exhibition space in Dresden. His Room for Constructive Art connected the notion that space and the viewer are constitutive elements of an artwork and that the reception of art can be activated through the organization of space. The publication Demonstration Rooms, which cites one of the terms Lissitzky used for his spatial designs, was produced in the context of a project at Dresdenโ€™s Albertinum that presented new art
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April 2020

BOOKBINDING STARTER KIT

A kit of basic tools for those who want to approach the artisan bookbinding and thus move a first step in this universe. Each tool has been selected, thinking about everything you need to start practicing. Including the case to always have the tools and inside the card with the link to the tutorial to make a simple binding. Product details: 2 needles | n.10 mt of white waxed wire; n.1
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April 2020

KIT CREA TU PROPRIA LIBRETA DIY

Learn to make your notebook from 0, you will learn to work with pre-binding, notebook bodies ready to be bound and learn the best way to make the covers, the cases and the closures of a notebook. Ideal kit to start binding in a fun and really easy way, all the pieces are pre-cut for a simple assembly. It includes instructions and a link to a video tutorial where you can see all the par
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May 2020

LA FILA

In an unnamed city in North Africa, the Gate - a central authority - took absolute power following the Misguided Events. Citizens are forced to apply for everything - to eat, move and even to be cared for - but the Door remains closed and on the threshold begins to form a long queue of questuanti: the Row. In this masterpiece Basma Abdel Aziz recounts the months spent in the Row by a humanity plunged into a parallel reality and dangerou
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