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This volume includes 77 photographs taken by Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944-2013) between 1978 and 2012, virtually spanning the Milanese photographer’s entire career.Reprising the title of a well-known short story by the Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis, this volume offers a narrative in images that begins in Italy and ends in South America. It speaks to us of the world from ancient to modern times, defining with the camera the spaces, volumes and forms of architecture.Text in English and Italian.

"I have been photographing the world’s sacred places since 1979. My lifelong theme in the photography is “beauty of impermanence”. I find a beauty in flower, as its life is only several days and can see the change every day. Even the stone monuments of sacred places, after a few thousand years, it starts to turn into sands just by natural elements, sun, wind and rain. I find it beautiful. People’s life is somewhat short, and knowing there is a limit of life, I see people shine within the time. As if the time polish a stone into a jewel. I see the same with people. My photographs in this show and a book, is a homage to a beautiful life". - Kenro IzuKenro Izu (Osaka, 1949) is a Japanese-born photographer based in the United States. Since 1979 began his serious professional commitment to his fine art photography, travelling the world to capture the sacred ancient stone monuments in their natural settings. He travelled and documented Egypt, Syria, Jordan, England, Scotland, Mexico, France and Easter Island (Chile). He has also focused on Buddhism and Hindu monuments in South East Asia: Cambodia, Burma, Indonesia, Vietnam and India.Sites featured include the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt; Stonehenge, UK; Petra, Jordan; Pyramid of Niches, Mexico; Easter Island, Chile; Angkor, Cambodia; Hampi, India; Machu Pichu, Peru; Mount Kailash, Tibet; and Tamshing, Bhutan. Text in English and Italian.

JAPAN. Bodies, Memories, Visions brings together over 90 works in photography and videos by 16 contemporary Japanese artists, offering a rich and nuanced view of the current Japanese visual culture. Traversing memory and identity, body, reality, and imagination, this book dwells on the relationship between past and present, intimacy and social space, perception and imagination.Created by internationally recognised masters and emerging artists, the selected works generate a dialogue between tradition and change, engaging with issues of gender, collective memory, everyday life, and global transformations, in an ongoing exchange between local perspectives and shared horizons.Artists: Yoko Asakai, Noriko Hayashi, Naoki Ishikawa, Keijiro Kai, Rinko Kawauchi, Futoshi Miyagi, Aya Momose, Yurie Nagashima, Sakiko Nomura, Tokihiro Sato, Susumu Shimonishi, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Risaku Suzuki, Ryoko Suzuki, Daisuke Yokota, Tomoko Yoneda.Text in English and Italian.

While in the West photography seems to have lost its way amid the endless proliferation of images since the advent of the digital era, photographic practice across the Global South remains widespread and supported by research and production centres of international standing.This volume presents the work of three contemporary Nepalese photographers, Uma Bista, Sagar Chhetri, and Kishor Sharma, united by their engagement with social, political, and gender-related issues. Their projects reflect the transformations currently reshaping Nepal, where the language of images foregrounds the social responsibility of the photographer, going far beyond traditional reportage and documentary inquiry.Text in English and Italian.

An essential tool for a deeper understanding of the multifaceted reality of Asian visual arts. A true catalogue raisonné, Contemporary Photography from the Far East presents the works of twenty-one of Asia’s most important contemporary artists who have made their mark on the international contemporary art scene in the fields of photography, video and film. It features works by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yang Fudong, Cao Fei, Kimsooja, Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, Daido Moriyama, Tabaimo, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Ai Weiwei, among others, accompanied by in-depth biographies and artists statements and introduced by critical essays by Filippo Maggia and Taro Amano, Chief Curator at Yokohama Museum of Art.