Milano

Giulia Pirelli
Milano
Photographs: Giulia Pirelli & Carlo Orsi
Text: Dino Buzzati
Publisher: Bruno Alfieri Editore
106 pages
Pictures: 54
Year: 1965
Comments: Hardcover with black cloth spine, 400 x 305 mm. First edition, 1965. Gravure printing. Text in italian. Beautifully designed by Giancarlo Liprandi. Copy have some wear, corners bumped and binding a little fragile but fresh copy. Reproductions very well preserved. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol. 1. A collectible and scarce italian photobook.
The dramatic shift away from the somewhat grim 1950s neo-realism seen in the other (equally scarce) Milan book, by Mario Carrieri, currently on offer offers an object lesson in shifting period style. Though published only six years after Carrieri's monograph, Pirelli and Orsi present a slick, cosmopolitan city on the move, contrasting sharply with the former's lingering sense of post-war dread and deprivation. "In only a few years the angst of the 1950s had been replaced by the buoyancy of the 60s," Parr and Badger write, "though some might say that art suffered as a result. Nevertheless, this is a vibrant, energetic, sharp and covetable book, and if style tends to win out over substance, that was the 60s, that was."
(Eric Miles / Photoeye)












more books tagged »city« | >> see all
-
City Stills
by Ray K. Metzker
sold -
Yau Ma Tei
by Wai Kwong Chan
Euro 50 -
E.D.S.A (LTD SIGNED EDT)
by Elisabeth Neudörfl
sold -
Hysteric N°6
by Daido Moriyama
sold -
Nine City Scapes From Europea (limited edition of 100)
by Joakim Kocjancic
Euro 80 -
Tyo-Wtc (Signed)
by Taiji Matsue
sold
more books tagged »sixties« | >> see all
-
Ondine
by Eikoh Hosoe
sold -
KILL THE PIG
by Masahisa Fukase
Euro 90 -
Needle of Death : An Addict's Day & an Examination of the Brit...
by MJ Delaney
sold -
Ikari wo hibi no kateni
by Tatsuo Kurihara
sold -
Blinds & Shutters (signed by 9 contributors)
by Michael Cooper
Euro 900 -
La Douceur de vivre
by Ed van der Elsken
Euro 300
more books tagged »italia« | >> see all
-
Mediterraneo (ONLY 50 COPIES - SIGNED WITH A PRINT)
by Joakim Kocjancic
Euro 80 -
MILANO, ITALIA
by Mario Carrieri
sold -
ROMA, CITTA DI MEZZO (Signed)
by Guy Tillim
sold -
Paesaggio italiano / Italian landscape
by Luigi Ghirri
sold -
(Other) Adventures of Pinocchio
by Lorenzo Tricoli
Euro 27 -
Varianti
by Guido Guidi
sold
more books tagged »gravure« | >> see all
-
Toto město je ve společné péči obyvatel / This city is under t...
by Miroslav Peterka & Bohumil Hrabal
Euro 180 -
OO! Shinjuku
by Shomei Tomatsu
sold -
Crazy Horse Saloon
by Emil Perauer / Alain Bernardin
sold -
Les Hébrides
by Paul Strand
sold -
Embrace (ASSOCIATION COPY)
by Eikoh Hosoe
sold -
Lisboa Antiga
by Collectif
sold
more books tagged »parr & badger« | >> see all
-
Hackney Wick
by Stephen Gill
sold -
WORK AND WAR IN SPAIN
by various photographers
Euro 400 -
Choosing : Green Beans
by John Baldessari
sold -
Uma certa maneira de cantar : Reforma agrária: unir, construir...
by Costa Martins
sold -
Scrapbook (Signed)
by Timothy Prus & Donovan Wylie
sold -
Empty Bottles (FIRST SIGNED EDT)
by WassinkLundgren
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com