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June 2019

LIBYA: INCH BY INCH, HOUSE BY HOUSE, ALLEY BY ALLEY (GOLD EDITION)

The book Libya: Inch by Inch, House by House, Alley by Alley 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 Libya, Silva has attempted to outline the architectural structures built by Muammar al-Gaddafiโ€™s regime that were demolished during the recent revolution. Her journey started from Benghaziโ€”the
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October 2020

Piccola storia della fotografia

Benjamin wrote the "Piccola story della fotografia" on commission at the end of the summer of 1931, driven by the need for money, but starting a project that was intended to lead to more extensive and in-depth results. In fact, photography had become an important interest on his path, crossed on several occasions during the never finished work of collecting materials for the "Passagen-Werk" and at the center of the reflection on the technical reproducibility that will give his results
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February 2024

Trophy and Treasure

In Trophy and Treasure, Francesco Neri (Faenza, 1982) tells the story of his father, a hospital doctor with a passion for hunting. The book opens with images taken in his grandparents' house; the familiar atmospheres alternate with landscape and nature images and in turn leave room for still life and portraits, in a composition that restores the author's visual imagination. The publication contains a conversation between Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, director of the Photographische Sammlung
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July 2019

BECHER’S ANATOMY

Photography and architecture often meet. The architect frequently delegates the function of documentation and promotion of his work to photography. For some time, moreover, photography and photomontage have been utilized by architects in the planning phase, as notebooks in which to jot down ideas for composition or construction. The interpretation of the relationship between architecture and photography proposed by Lidor Gilad and Giovanni Battista Balestra, teachers of the course of Digital Representation held at
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November 2023

Condominium (Deluxe Edition)

Cloro's book for Grani edizioni has as its matrix an obvious reference to Ballard's book, Condominium, from which the title is quoted. Condominium is described as a container, compact, univocal, like a skin, even functional, at least apparently, organism that contains, however, a heterogeneous, disjointed whole, lacking concatenated relations of cause and effect, even, at times, dramatic. "Unlike J. G. Balard's novel High-Rise (Condominium), from which I was arbitrarily and laterally inspired, here th
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November 2023

Condominium

Cloro's book for Grani edizioni has as its matrix an obvious reference to Ballard's book, Condominium, from which the title is quoted. Condominium is described as a container, compact, univocal, like a skin, even functional, at least apparently, organism that contains, however, a heterogeneous, disjointed whole, lacking concatenated relations of cause and effect, even, at times, dramatic. "Unlike J. G. Balard's novel High-Rise (Condominium), from which I was arbitrarily and laterally inspired, here th
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