Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima. L'età del Comune (Volume II)

Paul Elledge
Mohawk Paper Mills

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Richard Pankhurst, Denis Gérard
Kegan Paul International

Following the very successful Ethiopia Engraved, an illustrated book of engravings by foreign travellers from 1681 to 1900, Ethiopia Photographed covers the period from the inception of photography in the country up to the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings and rulers of Ethiopia - such as Emperor Melenik, Lej Iyasu and Emperor Haile Selassie - make it a highly photogenic country, as this lavishly illustrated book reveals.

Situated in lofty, often inaccessible mountains between the Red Sea and the Blue Nile, and extending far into the Horn of Africa, it is a complex and mysterious country which as always exercised an extraordinary fascination for the outside world. The book begins with an introduction which gives a brief history of Ethiopia in this period, and describes the role of photography at this time. The richly captured images of Ethiopia Photographed bear witness to many personalities and places not previously seen and, in many cases, now lost for all time but for the photogenic memories recorded here.

Francesco Legnani, Alberto Locatelli
Milly Pozzi Arte Contemporanea

Andrej Baskakov, Nikolaj Parlaskevic, Aleksej Semenov
Idea Books edizioni

John Szarkowski, Maria Hambourg Morris
Idea editions

William Manchester
RCS Rizzoli Libri

Paolo Monti
Istituto di Fotografia Paolo Monti

Antonia Pozzi
Àncora Editrice

Dan Holdsworth, Oliver Morton
Steidl/Brancolini Grimaldi

Occupying a space between the documentary and the make-believe, Dan Holdsworth's photographs transform Icelandic glaciers into a strange and futuristic landscape. In Blackout the landscape is present only as a brooding, eerie image of itself: the blue of the sky has become the deep black of space, while the earth appears in pale negative. This lunarlike terrain humbles the viewer before a foreign, awe-inspiring nature and repositions the notion of the romantic sublime.

Eckhard Siepmann
Gabriele Mazzotta Editore

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