ITALY Street Photographs 1978-1986

Jörg Rubbert, born 1963 in Bad Segeburg (near Hamburg) is a Berlin-based photographer renowned for his humanist, analogue street photography. His work documents the lives of everyday city dwellers with empathy and authenticity, focusing on social themes and urban narratives in cities such as Paris, New York, and Berlin. Rubbert exclusively uses analog cameras and available light to capture expressive, timeless images—often in atmospheric black and white—without digital manipulation. He was a gallery owner from 2009 to 2014 and is a member of AFF (Atelier Freier Fotografen); Rubbert continues to live and work in Berlin.

Joerg Rubbert's Italy book evokes for me the memory of the heat I felt on our first trip to Italy. It stirs memories of children's voices in Italian streets, of the boys playing football who let me join in.  (…) He rediscovers in his images the analog, slow-paced world, the changed relationship with the factor of time, people in their growing dependence on modern media. (…) Jörg Rubbert’s Italy book exerts a fascination on the viewer, at least on anyone who has ever visited this country with love and affection. And what certainly holds true for the book is that images can mature over decades.– Juergen Buergin, A visual zine

• Preface 6ITALY 1978 – 1986: A Photographic Approach 14Italy in the Late 70s and Early 80s: A Description of Condition 18The Peak Phase of Extremist Terror 18On the Trail of Pasolini’s Italy 26A Parallel to Pasolini’s Criticism of Civilization 30Photographer’s Note 34Plates 45Urban Italy 46Florence 47Pisa 83Venice 97Rural Italy 122ELBA 123Sicily 141Puglia / Calabria / Campania 153Liguria – The Riviera di Ponente 167Making of 178Biography 180Exhibitions and Publications 182Endnotes 188Acknowledgements 190Imprint