Once upon a time

Ugo Mulas
Officina libraria

Ugo Mulas e Alexander Calder. Un grande fotografo e un grande artista legati da un'amicizia profonda. Il frutto visibile di questo incontro sono le centinaia di foto dell'istrionico artista americano, della sua famiglia, delle sue opere e delle sue case di Roxbury e Saché (Stati Uniti e Francia) scattate da Mulas, un "album di famiglia che rivelasse l'amore per il suo lavoro e la gioia che la sua amicizia mi dava". La scelta di immagini qui presentata, curata da Melina Mulas, figlia di Ugo e a sua volta nota fotografa, mette in evidenza il ruolo di critica d'arte non verbalizzata dello sguardo di Mulas. Il fotografo seppe infatti cogliere, come scrive Argan, "con incredibile finezza l'affinità genetica tra le opere e l'artista che le faceva, e nello stesso tempo la loro intima contraddizione, come se la leggerezza delle sculture riscattasse la gran massa del corpo dello scultore e la loro volubilità fosse uguale a quella del suo carattere bonario e capriccioso, espresso dal ciuffo dei capelli bianchissimi sempre scompigliati da un vento inesistente".

Mario Cattaneo
s.e.

Ben Watts
Princeton Architectural Press

Ben Watts has rapidly emerged as one of today's top photographers. His collection of photographic moments captured both on assignment and while working on personal projects covers a broad range of subjects, from street photography to fashion shoots, from hip-hop culture to high school wrestlers. Watts's images not only show the personal visual diary of an artist, but provide a new look at what it means to be young and urban. Often with short notes from himself or his subjects scribbled on the photos, or with bits and pieces from the "site" (an airplane boarding pass, an entry ticket), Watts's images are put together in fantastic collages and combinations that are humorous and insightful at the same time.
Big Up is Ben Watts's personal scrapbook reproduced in a large-format book that preserves all the qualities of a photo album. His images--vibrant, energetic, and sensuous--take readers on a photographic journey that stays in mind long after the book has been put down.

Guido Argentini
teNeues Publishing Company

The sculpture of Michelangelo, Rodin, and Brancusi, serve as the inspiration for Guido Argentini's masterly photographs of the female nude. Published together for the first time in this breathtaking collection taken over a period of seventeen years, Argentini's astute focus on the female form achieves the transformation of bodies into objects of art. We are presented with two distinct series of spectacular photos. The first is shot in locations around the world in a way that fuses the body with the landscape while in the second, dancers and gymnasts are photographed in contorted positions in the studio. Covered with a veil of oil or a coat of metallic paint and exquisitely lit, the bodies leap off the page with an astounding three dimensionality.

Giordano Morganti
Silvana Editoriale

Maurizio Galimberti
Elettra Fotolito

Leroy Lucas
New York State Council on the Arts

Mark Power
Photoworks

Davide Camisasca
Camisasca & Tranti Editori

Aldo Coppola, Barry Lategan
L'Orèal

Italo Zannier
s.e

Franco Fedeli
Casa editrice Giglio