spring 2012 catalog Download PDF - Damiani editore

index 

[ new titles 3 

backlist 46 

alleged press 47 

Freedman | Damiani 48 

fashion | lifestyle 50 

photography 52 

contemporary art 60 

music 65 

architecture | design 66 

urban art 68 

limited edition 70 

collecting 74 

[ distributors 46 

[ contacts 77

new titles

toilet paper 

maurizio cattelan 

Freedman | Damiani 

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Maurizio Cattelan 

Toilet Paper 

Edited by Dennis Freedman 

Photographs by Pierpaolo Ferrari 

34,5 x 23,8 cm. 13.5 x 9.5 inches 

Pgs. 212 ill. 120 

Cloth hardback 

English 

Release date Spring 2012 

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Usd 65.00 GbP 40.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-210-5 

Maurizio Cattelan’s newest body of work comprises startling 

photographs done in collaboration with commercial photographer 

Pierpaolo Ferrari and published in Cattelan’s limited edition 

magazine Toilet Paper. Colliding commercial photography 

with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery these 

images mark a new phase in Cattelan’s art production. This 

important body of work is gathered here for the first time in 

book form re-edited by Dennis Freedman in collaboration with 

Maurizio Cattelan. 

Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) began his career as a furniture 

designer, transitioning to art through his realistic sculptures. 

Cattelan has exhibited at Skulptur Projekte, Münster (1997), the 

Tate Gallery, London (1999), the Museum of Contemporary Art, 

Los Angeles (2003) and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2003), 

Guggenheim Museum (2011), New York and participated in the 

Venice Biennale (1993, 1997, 1999, and 2002). He was a finalist for 

the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss prize in 2000, received an honorary 

degree in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy, in 

2004, and was also awarded the Arnold-Bode prize from the 

Kunstverein Kassel, Germany, that same year. He has also founded 

and edited magazines such as Charley, Permanent Food and 

Toilet Paper. He is represented by Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris, 

Massimo de Carlo in Milan and Marian Goodman Gallery in 

New York. 

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electrical banana: masters of psychedelic art 

by norman hathaway and dan nadel 

foreword by paul mccartney 

contemporary art 

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Norman Hathaway 

Dan Nadel 

Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art 

Foreword by Paul McCartney 

23,5 x 26 cm. 9.5 x 10.25 inches 

Pgs. 208 ill. 150 

Paperback 

English 


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Usd 39.95 GbP 27.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-204-4 

Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art is the first definitive 

examination of the international language of psychedelia, 

focusing on the most important practitioners in their respective 

fields with a deft combination of hundreds of unseen images 

and exclusive interviews and essays, Electrical Banana aims to 

revise the common perception of psychedelic art, showing it to 

be more innovative, compelling, and revolutionary than was 

ever thought before. 

The artists include: Marijke Koger, a Dutch artist responsible for 

dressing the Beatles; Mati Klarwein, who painted the cover for 

Miles Davis Bitches Brew; Keiichi Tanaami, the Japanese master 

of psychedelic posters; Heinz Edelmann, the German illustrator 

and designer of the Yellow Submarine animated film; Tadanori 

Yokoo, whose prints and books, defined the ‘60s in Japan; Dudley 

Edwards, a painter, car decorator, and graphic embellisher for 

the London rock scene, and the enigmatic Australian Martin 

Sharp, whose work for Cream and underground magazines 

made him a hippie household name in Europe. 

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alchemy of beauty 

bob recine 

fashion | lifestyle 

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Bob Recine 

Alchemy Of Beauty 

Text by René Ricard 

Photographs by Mario Sorrenti, 

Robbie Fimmano and Bob Recine 

24 x 31,2 cm. 9.5x 12 inches 

Pgs. 164 Ill. 130 

Hardback with french jacket 

English 


Rights world 

Usd 65.00 GbP 40.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-212-9 

Hairstylist Bob Recine approaches the head as an armature 

for sculpture. The man behind some of the most avant-garde 

hairdos and head dresses worn by Lady Gaga, Recine has taken 

hair styling to incredibly creative heights-often literally, as he 

propels the braids and locks of his subjects into gravity-defying 

contours, augmenting them with sculptural gestures such as 

clumps of headphones or sunglasses, tendrils of Play-Doh and 

complex meshes of wire or cellophane. Starting out as an artist, 

Recine secured a project creating hairstyles and head ornaments 

for the windows of Henri Bendel. His designs caught 

the eye of world-renowned hair stylist Jean Louis David, who 

offered him the opportunity to travel to Paris and hone his 

craft; four years later, Recine returned to New York, armed with 

a portfolio of innovative stylings for top photographers and 

magazines. Today Recine is a legend among A-list celebrities, 

having worked with Gwyneth Paltrow, Charlize Theron, Naomi 

Watts, Angelina Jolie, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kate Hudson, Renée 

Zellweger, Uma Thurman, Nicole Kidman, and Tilda Swinton. 

His talents have even returned him circuitously to the world of 

fine art, for his extensive collaborations with Vanessa Beecroft. 

Alchemy of Beauty gathers original artwork by Recine, from 

photographs, sketches, collages and paintings to previously 

published and unpublished editorial images of his extraordinary 

sculpture and headdresses. Art direction for the volume is 

by Fabien Baron. 

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holy works 

andres serrano 

photography 

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Andres Serrano 

Holy Works 

Introduction by James Frey 

Text by Germano Celant 

24 x 31 cm. 9.5 x 12 inches 

Pgs. 96 ill. 60 


English 


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Usd 50.00 GbP 30.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-209-9 

Holy Works is the culmination of Andres Serrano’s vision of 

Christian iconography, reinterpreted photographically for the 

present. Serrano’s intention with these works is not to recreate 

specific medieval or renaissance religious paintings, nor to 

invest them with the iconoclasm that made his name in the 

1980s, but rather to renew the genre of sacred portraiture: 

“Rather than destroy sacred icons,” says the artist, “I reinvent 

and reinforce them.” Serrano’s subjects for this series are selected 

from among his friends and acquaintances, emphasizing 

(like Caravaggio before him) the ordinariness of human 

features. The genres and themes are familiar, and Holy Works 

includes a Last Supper and a Stations of the Cross (rendered 

as a triptych panel), as well as bolder portrayals typical of 

Serrano, a Blood Madonna and a Chinoise Madonna, for example. 

This volume is Serrano’s major statement of his religious 

and artistic belief. 

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Limited edition 

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Andres Serrano 

Holy Works 

[ Limited edition of 50 copies 

Introduction by James Frey 

Text by Germano Celant 


comes with a numbered and signed 

photo by Andres Serrano (28 x 35,5 cm. 11 x 14 inches) 

in a linen cloth box (36,5 x 45 x 6,5 cm. 14.5 x 18 x 2,5 inches) 

English 


Rights world 

Usd 750.00 GbP 500.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-219-8 


nailed 

the history of nail culture and dzine 

dzine 

fashion | lifestyle 

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Dzine 

Nailed 

The history of nail culture and dzine 

In association with Standard Press 

Introduction by Kim Hastreiter 

24.4 x 29.3 cm. 9.5 x 11.5 inches 

Pgs. 216 ill. 290 

Hardback 

English 


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Usd 45.00 GbP 30.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-205-1 

Dzine’s fusion of commerce, kustom kulture craft and high art 

have made him an international sensation in locations as various 

as the Venice Biennale—where he famously customized an 

18-foot boat into a blinged-out multimedia installation—and 

Chicago, where he first made a name for himself as a teenage 

graffiti artist. In September 2011, Dzine launched two kustom 

nail art salons in New York: one in the lobby window of the 

New Museum, at which various local nail artists offered free 

nail designs to visitors; and the other at Salon 94 Freemans 

gallery,where a kustom chandelier, four jewel-encrusted paintings, 

a gold-leaf hutch and flamboyant,wearable nail sculptures 

were exhibited alongside a nail salon with a part-time manicurist. 

Produced in the Get Nailed at the New Museum and Imperial 

Nail Salon—these events were huge hits, coinciding as 

they did with kustom nail art’s massive international popularity, 

and led to the publication of this luxurious volume,which 

celebrates and contextualizes the kustom nail movement. 

Nailed looks at the history of nail design and adornment across 

cultures, documenting contemporary nail art with specially 

commissioned photography of the phenomenon from across 

the globe.With an introduction by Paper cofounder Kim Hastreiter 

and contributions by Luis Gispert, Yone, Jamel Shabazz and 

Fab 5 Freddy, Nailed includes overviews of Dzine’s Get Nailed at 

the New Museum and Imperial Nail Salon projects. 

Chicago-based artist Carlos Rolon (born 1970),aka Dzine, is a recipient 

of the Joan Mitchell Foundation award for Painting and 

Sculpture. His work has been included in exhibitions and is in 

the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the 

Museo del Barrio, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, 

Chicago; and the Bass Museum of Art, Miami. 

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ewilding 

cass bird 

photography 

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Cass Bird 

Rewilding 

Texts by Sally Singer and Jack Halberstam 

18 x 24 cm. 7 x 9.5 inches 

Pgs. 88 ill. 42 


English 


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Usd 35.00 GbP 20.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-218-1 

Over the past ten years, Cass Bird (born 1974) has established 

herself as one of the foremost portraitists of contemporary 

America. Her photographs of young women and men casually 

draw attention to the fluid expression of gender roles and androgyny 

in today’s youth culture, and to what she has described 

as “the convergence of alternative lifestyles with accepted conceptions 

of motherhood, nurturing and family.” In the summers 

of 2009 and 2010, Bird traveled to Sassafrass, Tennessee, with a 

group of young women, a wardrobe of diaphanous dresses and 

a camera. These women—studio assistants, friends, or women 

cast from the streets of New York—had been selected by Bird 

for their ease with their sexual identities, but also for their relative 

awkwardness in front of the lens. The result was Rewilding, 

a joyous portrait of modern femininity and a frolicking celebration 

of women’s camaraderie. 

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framed 

for l.a. eyeworks 

greg gorman 

photography 

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Greg Gorman 

Framed 

for L.A. Eyeworks 

25 x 25 cm. 10 x 10 inches 

Pgs. 192 ill. 100 

Cloth hardback with Jacket 

English 


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Usd 50.00 GbP 35.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-203-7 

In 1982 Greg Gorman was just beginning his career as a photographer, 

creating campaigns and publicity shoots for such films 

as Tootsie, The Big Chill and Scarface, with stars from the worlds 

of film, television and music gracing his studio on a daily basis. 

It was also at this time that Jeff Gorman and Gary Johns 

created a campaign for the famous Los Angeles-based eyewear 

company, L.A. Eyeworks, for which they hired Gorman as house 

photographer. The ads were published as full-page bleeds in 

AndyWarhol’s Interview magazine; and the campaign, one of 

the very first celebrity endorsed “advertorials” of its kind, has 

endured over 30 years,making it one of the longest running 

photo-campaigns ever. Gorman was able to recruit stars for 

the campaign from his film-studio work, andWarhol—who 

personally called the photographer and requested to do an 

l.a.Eyeworks shoot, which led to the series’most famous portrait—also 

gathered famous faces for the company. Alongside- 

Warhol, the many celebrities photographed by Gorman in their 

L.A. Eyeworks frames include Boy George, Philip Glass, Meryl 

Streep, Jodie Foster, Iman, Lypsinka, Bryan Ferry, Grace Jones, 

Quentin Crisp, JohnWaters, Johnny Rotten, Rob Lowe,Whoopi 

Goldberg, Mickey Rourke, Frank Zappa, Elton John, Divine, Pierce 

Brosnan, David Hockney, Debbie Harry and PeeWee Herman. 

Gorman’s luscious, era-defining, black-and-white photographs 

are gathered here for the first time. 

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Greg Gorman 

In Their Youth 

[ Photography 

20 x 25 cm. 8 x 10 inches 

Pgs. 280 ill. 250 

Hardback with jacket 

English 

Rights world 

Usd 50.00 GbP 29.99 

ISBN 978-88-6208-097-2 


wood, water & rock 

cliff watts 

photography 

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Cliff Watts 

Wood Water & Rock 

Foreword by Beyoncé 

24 x 28 cm. 9,5 x 11 inches 

Pgs. 200 Ill. 140 

Cloth hardback with dust jacket 

English 


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Usd 60.00 GbP 35.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-206-8 

This collection of nudes is about forms in nature. It was a year 

of travelling to different landscapes and seeing the beauty of 

these “human fossils.” It’s a collaboration between myself as 

a photographer and six willing friends who volunteered to go 

through extreme heat, freezing cold and various uncomfortable 

conditions to create this wonderful body of work. This book is 

a labor of love. It’s about form, texture, abstraction, and beauty. 

It’s about the classic nude, and how it blends seamlessly into 

and also contrasts nature. 

Cliff Watts is an American fashion and portrait photographer 

and commercials director. He is most widely known for his ad 

campaigns for Revlon, L’Oréal, Hugo Boss, Banana Republic and 

Armani Jeans, as well as for his work in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Bazaar, 

W, Elle and Esquire. His music videos for Beyoncé complement 

his spot projects, which have paired him with celebrity 

subjects such as David Beckham, Halle Berry, Sienna Miller and 

Scarlett Johansson. Watts’ work is noted for its unique perspective, 

as evident in his intimate portraits that reveal the sensuality, 

humour and humanity that lies behind the public image of 

his subjects. Wood Water & Rock will be his first tabletop book. 

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prospect 

thomas r. schiff 

photography 

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Thomas R. Schiff 

Prospect 

Texts by Michael Speaks and Ann Cotter 

42,5 x 24,8 cm. 16.5 x 10 inches 

Pgs. 304 ill. 250 

Cloth hardback with jacket 

English 


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Usd 80.00 GbP 50.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-195-5 

From the vernacular movie theatres of the 1930s to libraries, 

private residences, universities, and performance halls, Prospect 

features Schiff’s quintessentially American work—kaleidoscopic 

and vibrantly colored large format prints that offer up a new 

way of seeing and interpreting the architectural landscape. 

Counted among the more than 200 photographs in Prospect 

are buildings by the titans of architecture: Norman Foster, 

Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano. 

From visionary works by Thomas Jefferson to spectacular hotel 

resort developments, museums and the public spaces that define 

the fantasy skyline of Las Vegas, Schiff has logged hundreds 

of thousands of miles across the United States in rediscovering 

this rich repository of buildings. In Prospect, Schiff’s steady and 

unrestrained visual language forcefully combines in a remarkable 

corpus that will broadly appeal to architects, designers, 

photographers, filmmakers and those interested in the visual 

arts. Designed by Los Angeles-based Waxel, the book also features 

a compelling new essay by noted writer, Michael Speaks. 

Thomas R. Schiff began experimenting with panoramic photography 

in the mid-1980s, a period in which he also helped found 

Images Center, Cincinnati’s premier gallery for exhibiting photography. 

In 1994, Schiff began using the Hulcherama 360 Panoramic 

camera which he continues to use in his prolific practice. 

A native of Cincinnati, Schiff is the founder of FotoFocus Cincinnati, 

a citywide celebration of photographic and lens-based art. 

He is currently at work on a book about the architectural legacy 

of J. Irwin Miller and the city of Columbus, Indiana. 

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quantum light 

david benjamin sherry 

photography 

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David Benjamin Sherry 

Quantum Light 

Introduction by Collier Schorr 

In association with Salon 94 

21 x 27 cm. 8.2 x 10.6 inches 

Pgs. 72 ill. 70 

Cloth Hardback 

English 


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Usd 50.00 GbP 30.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-213-6 

David Benjamin Sherry (born 1981) graduated with an MFA 

in photography from the Yale School of Art in 2007. In 2010 

his richly color-saturated photographs became the face of the 

Greater New York exhibition at MoMA/PS1. That same year 

he was named by the New York Times T magazine as one of the 

50 up -and- coming American talents. Sherry's work has been 

recognized for casting new light on the state of contemporary 

photography while celebrating the end of the film-based medium. 

In Quantum Light, Sherry's second publication, his non- 

digital photographs reference the traditional photographic hierarchies 

of landscape and portraiture, yet rely on a subversion 

of the expected. He creates pictures of interior landscapes by 

constructing a sublimated view of his place within the natural 

world. This book designed by Tiffany Malakooti includes his 

most recent landscape, collage, still life, abstraction, portrait 

and sculptural works, all placed upon colored pages. The playful 

layout activates Sherry's often monochromatic and bright 

photographs. A conversation between Sherry and Collier Schorr 

serves as a preface to this beautifully produced clothbound volume, 

which is published to coincide with the artist's first New 

York solo show at Salon 94. 

] 

Also Available: 

David Benjamin Sherry 

It’s Time 

[ Photography 

22 x 30 cm. 9 x 12 inches 

Pgs. 96 ill. 60 

Cloth Hardback 

English 

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Usd 50.00 GbP 29.99 

ISBN 978-88-6208-093-4 


gabe TM 

nick haymes 

photography 

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Nick Haymes 

GAbE TM 

Introduction by Gus Van Sant 

22 x 28 cm. 8.5 x 11 inches 

Pgs. 128 ill. 85 

Hardback 

English 


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Usd 40.00 GbP 25.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-191-7 

Nick Haymes first met Gabe Nevins on an editorial assignment 

in the summer of 2007. Gabe had just wrapped up his lead 

role in Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, in which he had played a 

teenage skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard. 

Gabe had never acted prior to starring in the film; he had heard 

about Van Sant’s casting call from a skateboard store and initially 

auditioned as an extra. Meeting the teenager, Haymes 

recalls: “Initially, Gabe was fairly shy, but it quickly transpired 

that he had seen some of my skateboarding images online and 

an instant friendship was struck. When the assignment was 

over, I approached Gabe about the possibility of working on 

more photographs as there was something entirely captivating 

about him and his energy.” This volume tracks the highs and 

lows of Gabe’s teen years, from stardom to emotional. 

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Limited edition 

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Nick Haymes 

GAbE TM 

[ Limited edition of 30 copies 

Introduction by Gus Van Sant 

Hardback with slipcase 

The limited edition comes with a numbered 

and signed photo by Nick Haymes 

and it includes original segments from Gabes notebooks 

photo by Nick Haymes (22 x 29 cm. 8,5 x 11,5 inches) 

in a cloth slipcase (23 x 30 x 2,5 cm. 9 x 12 x 1 inches) 

English 


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Usd 350.00 GbP 220.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-225-9 


shoebox studio 

stéphane coutelle 

photography 

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Stéphane Coutelle 

Shoebox Studio 

Introduction by Camille Saint-Jacques 

23 x 28 cm. 9 x 11 inches 

Pgs. 128 ill. 120 

Hardback with slipcase 

English 


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Usd 50.00 GbP 30.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-197-9 

These aspiring models have flown in from all over the world to 

Paris, the ogre city, where the quest for beauty feeds on new faces. 

Soon, these uprooted girls will be transformed into sophisticated 

creatures of universal glamour. Stéphane Coutelle, the 

renowned beauty photographer, will be one of the architects of 

this transformation. But by receiving them in the Shoebox Studio 

during the first days of their Parisian stay for a brief session, 

unencumbered by any strict production objectives, Coutelle 

pays tribute to their identity and their peculiarity, both perhaps 

even more short-lived than their youth. This first meeting aims 

to capture a psychology, a past, before professional reflexes can 

take hold, before any complicity is established. The artist acts 

here without preconceived ideas, open to everything. The situation 

is not the conventional one of the artist and his model. 

The girls’ looks carry questioning, expectations, but determination 

as well. They know their fate will unwind behind the 

closed doors of shooting sessions, and that there will be little 

time to learn the rules of the game …Coutelle’s portraits sometimes 

trouble us. We could attribute this disconcertment to a 

kind of harshness or voyeurism on behalf of the photographer. 

But in reality, these images express a certain solidarity; it is not 

Coutelle himself who is unrelenting, but the world in which 

both the artist and his model evolve. Shoebox Studio is a major 

project because the portraits lead us from a private, individual 

psychology to the contemporary human condition in which the 

need to be seen and recognized has become a global quest, a 

social phenomenon. 

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master photographers. 

portraits by michael somoroff 

michael somoroff 

photography 

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Michael Somoroff 

Master Photographers. 

Portraits by Michael Somoroff 

Text by William Ewing 

28 x 33 cm. 11 x 13 inches 

Pgs. 138 ill. 110 

Hardback 

English 


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Usd 50.00 GbP 30.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-211-2 

Master Photographers is the body of work Michael Somoroff 

made thirty-five years ago. He took it upon himself to photograph 

in-depth his heroes and mentors, the master photographers 

of the twentieth century. Michael Somoroff had been 

introduced to their work and subsequently to many of the photographers 

themselves by his father, the pre-eminent still-life 

photographer Ben Somoroff. 

In honor of each of these photographers mentoring Somoroff, 

he began a series of portraits of his heroes including Brassaï, 

Ralph Gibson, André Kertész, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Arnold 

Newman, Helmut Newton and others. Each was caught at the 

quintessential moment thereby defining a period of photography 

that was unique- the climax of the analog photographic 

experience. The book contains a vast array of cutting edge artists 

photographed formally as well as behind the scenes who 

informed Somoroff’s art and craft. 

The text is written by William Ewing. Mr. Ewing at the time the 

photographs were taken was Director of Exhibitions at The International 

Center of Photography where Michael Somoroff had 

his first solo exhibition. 

The book is designed by Tom Bentkowski former Director of Design 

for LIFE magazine. 

Michael Somoroff will also contribute texts with his special 

reminiscences of these masters, his friendships with them and 

the significance of their work. 

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palindrome 

alessio cocchi 

photography 

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Alessio Cocchi 

Palindrome 

35 x 28 cm. 13.5 x 11 inches 

Pgs. 88 Ill. 37 

Hardback 

Italian/English 


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Usd 40.00 GbP 25.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-217-4 

Alessio Cocchi is a fashion and still-life photographer based in 

Milan, who is best known for his partnership with the most famous 

fashion brands and magazines such as Gucci, Ferragamo 

and Vogue. This volume introduces his perfection's research 

through palindromic photographs, fashion and still-life pictures 

absolutely symmetrical. 

Alessio Cocchi was born in 1968. He worked as an assistant of a 

Florentine fashion and still-life photographer but immediately 

afterwards, decided to set up his own photo studio and thus 

launched his career as a professional photographer. At the age 

of 23, his images had already made their way into prestigious 

publications such as Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. 

Alessio's style is characterized by the unique and striking 

moods he creates through a meticulous study of lighting and 

its effects. Alessio is currently working out of Milan, with the 

most reputable fashion houses. 

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dreaming of ingmar bergman 

jill mathis 

photography 

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Jill Mathis 

Dreaming of Ingmar Bergman 

Curated by Roberto Mastroianni 

Text by Ugo Volli, et al. Designed by Phillip Squier 

24 x 31 cm. 9.5 x 12 inches 

Pgs. 112 Ill. 100 

Hardback 

English/Italian 


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Usd 40.00 GbP 25.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-215-0 

This is a book with Bergman which creates a stage for a dialog 

between three generations, three different cultures and three 

different points of view which has as its center a rapport between 

the image, the word and human existence. Ingmar Bergman, 

Jill Mathis and Roberto Mastroianni come together on a 

delimited ground from the image and the word and from this 

propitious encounter is born an artistic-philosophical dialog. 

The existential value, one could say religious, of the images inspired 

by the Bergmanian poetic becomes the playing field for 

this photographic/ artistic research, and at the same time, it is 

a tribute to the life and times of the great director, writer and 

Swedish playwright, Bergman. The book is, in fact, the result of 

an artistic etymological/philosophical and photographic research 

on the places and the Bergman poetic. Jill Mathis created 

the photographs around the evocative words found in Bergman 

productions based on the dialog between Bergman and 

Mastroianni (i.e. Persona, Alone, Religion, Whisper, Desire, Seal, 

Confession, Forgiveness, Grace…). The Swedish spaces where 

Bergman lived and filmed (Uppsala, Stockholm, the island of 

Fårö), the themes and the Bergmanian words are seen as such 

and recounted Through a lens darkly, which is 'Through a glass 

darkly' expanding the evocative power of the worlds and the 

Bergmanian images. 

Jill Mathis is from San Antonio, Texas. After living in New York 

City for five years, four of which were spent as the full-time assistant 

to Ralph Gibson, she moved to Italy. This is not the first 

time she has entered in a dialog with another artist. At the moment 

she is now producing an extensive body of work based 

on etymology. Jill exhibits regularly in both Europe and America 

and her work can be found in many public and private collections, 

including Whitney Museum, The International Center of 

Photography of New York and of the Norton Museum of Art of 

Palm Beach, Brooklyn Museum, Columbia University, George 

Washington University. 

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cardinal points 

andrea garuti 

photography 

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Andrea Garuti 

Cardinal Points 

Text by Andrea Salvatici 

24 x 30 cm. 9.5 x 11.5 inches 

Pgs. 96 Ill. 50 

Hardback 



Rights world 

Usd 40.00 GbP 24.95 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-194-8 

With this volume, Italian photographer Andrea Garuti returns 

to his favorite practice, the depiction of cities. Organized around 

the idea of “cardinal points,” it portrays buildings and urban 

views in Berlin (north), Las Vegas (west), Cairo (south) and Hong 

Kong (east) with a painterly blurring treatment that animates 

the structures. 

Andrea Garuti, born in Florence in 1965, took up photography at 

the age of 13 under the guidance of his father, a photographer of 

architecture. From the mid 90’s onwards he alternated commissions 

from big multinationals (Etro, Fay, Champion...) with photojournalism 

for magazines such as Elle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, 

Marie Claire, Case da Abitare, Elle Decor, Amica, Io Donna and 

Vogue. In 2006 he held his first solo exhibition, Urbe tremula, at 

the Romberg arte spaces in Rome. Garuti’s work has developed 

recently into an admixture of painting and photography, whose 

technique involves the transfer of images reproduced on paper 

and plaster. 

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ae martini - 24 carat dirt 

rae martini 

R A E M A R T I N I - 2 4 C A R A T D I R T 

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Rae Martini 

Rae Martini. 24 Carat Dirt 

24 x 30 cm. 9.5 x 11.5 inches 

Pgs. 208 ill. 150 

Hardback 

English 


Rights world 

Usd 40.00 GbP 25.00 

ISBN > 978-88-6208-207-5 

Rae Martini, a prominent figure on the international street 

scene, comes face to face with painting and artistic expression 

for the first time in the early 90s. For over twenty years he 

serves as one of the greatest exemplars of the Italian Graffiti 

movement. Along with only a few other artists, he has managed 

to concretize his artistic development. With so much graffiti on 

streets and trains in so many European cities, he pursued an 

artistic career dedicated to the world of paint and canvas. Just 

like railroad tracks, these two parallel domains intertwine and 

influence each other with the aesthetics and experiences of 

two worlds, distant, yet close; hardly any artists from the graffiti 

scene are so committed to their work and beliefs that they 

are capable of bringing urban setting and street culture into 

the world of fine art galleries. Over the last two decades, Rae 

Martini has been able to dedicate himself to these two worlds 

using a common starting point: sketching on paper. 

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global education 

giuseppe stampone 

photography 

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Giuseppe Stampone 

Global Education 

Edited by Maurizio Bortolotti 

16,5 x 23,5 cm. 6.5 x 9.25 inches 

Pgs. 304 Ill. 220 

Paperback 



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ISBN > 978-88-6208-214-3 

Global Education is a book on Italian artist Giuseppe Stampone's 

methodology. His work can be compared to the Chinese 

boxes game, he creates projects that contain other projects. 

Through these projects, he realizes artworks, interventions in 

the social space and new educational models that are based on 

the concept of network. The book contains Water/Net Community, 

his last project, the most ambitious from the point of view 

of his artistic methodology; Solstizio, the starting point from 

which all the others are derived. 

Giuseppe Stampone is an artist who has integrated the new 

media to his artistic-didactic projects addressed to social and 

environmental topics. In 2008 he creates the network Solstizio 

conceiving and developing its contents and the communication 

strategy. The project, co-funded by the European Union, envisages 

the realization of installations, whether permanent in public 

spaces, or of relational art. Recently, he has launched two pieces 

of global art with the title Global Education, Saluti da L’ Aquila 

and Saluti da New Orleans, which integrate with the Solstizio 

platform. Among his exhibitions: Saluti da L’ Aquila, MACRO 

2011; Liverpool Biennial 2010; The Flower of May Kunsthalle City 

Museum, Gwangiu; Gran Prix Linz 2009; Project VOLTA6 2010; Il 

bel paese, Museo Gamec di Bergam0; No Longer Empty con Julia 

Kent, Invisible Dog, New York; Through the looking glass, Villa 

Italia, Belgrade 2009; My Space, Museo PAN di Naples; XIV e XV 

Quadriennale di Rome; CAOS, side event of the 53° Biennale di 

Venice; Radici, Istituto italiano di cultura, Madrid 2009; Junk 

Space, Triennale Bovisa Milano; Welcome American Academy, 

Rome. 

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shades of a woman 

guido argentini 

photography 

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Guido Argentini 

Shades of a Woman 

28,7 x 29 cm. 11.2 x 9.5 inches 

Pgs. 200 Ill. 150 

Hardback with jacket 

English/Spanish/Italian/French/German 


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ISBN > 978-88-6208-199-3 

In the book Shades of a woman Guido Argentini began exploring 

different levels and nuances of the female nature. Shot 

both in color and black and white the images are telling a story 

in one single picture, like single frames taken from a movie. 

Women, photographed in USA, Thailand, Italy and Cuba are 

still the source of inspiration of Guido Argentini's photographs. 

Argentini’s aim is that women- the muses who have guided him 

along his path- up until now- being the subjects of his pictures 

or even simply those who witness his photos, can identify themselves 

in these stories. 

Guido Argentini was born in Florence, Italy. He studied Medicine 

for three years at the university of Florence. At 23 he decided to 

turn his passion for photography into a profession and started 

to shoot fashion and beauty. Since 1990 he has lived in the USA, 

in Los Angeles. His work has been published by some of the leading 

magazines in the world such as Marie Claire, Men'sHealth, 

Panorama, Playboy, Vogue, Max, Maxim and many others. 

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clouds nuages versailles 

lucy + jorge orta 

photography 

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Lucy + Jorge Orta 

Clouds Nuages Versailles 

16,5 x 23,5 cm. 6.5 x 9.25 inches 

Pgs. 224 Ill. 150 

Paperback 

English/French 


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ISBN > 978-88-6208-216-7 

Clouds|Nuages is published in association with the Ecole 

nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles and its 

contemporary art centre La Maréchalerie. It traces the 

inception of Clouds | Nuages co-commissioned by énsa-v and 

La Maréchalerie for an exhibition in the arts centre and the Cocreation 

workshop conducted with the architecture students 

presented in the Galerie des Moulages of the Louvre museum. 

Clouds|Nuages draws from their previous research on issues 

effecting our environment, in particular the theme of water. 

Leading from their project OrtaWater, the artworks pose questions 

about the scarcity of this natural resource, the exploitation, 

purification and the distribution networks. The recycling 

communities in Cairo inspire the artists as well as the lifespan 

of the water bottle that gradually disintegrates to create the 

enormous floating islands in our Oceans. In Versailles, these 

environmental threats radiate with an unexpected lightness 

and hedonism. Waste materials undergo metamorphosis. Technological 

processes, exuberant metallic colours and Baroque 

shapes confront us with a bright and optimistic world. 

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sand sea sky 

the beaches of sagaponack 

tria giovan 

photography 

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Tria Giovan 

Sand Sea Sky 

The Beaches Of Sagaponack 

34 x 24 cm. 13.5 x 9.5 inches 

Pgs. 96 Ill. 63 

Hardback with dust jacket 

English 


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ISBN > 978-88-6208-196-2 

Tria Giovan transports viewers to the Hamptons, to a pristine 

and fragile landscape of immeasurable variation and on a journey 

through the totality of the circle of time. The photographs 

are a meditation paying homage to a place where change is 

constant, primordial forces resonate, and the spirit is restored. 

Through a decade of seasons Giovan charted the permutations 

of tides, wind, sand, and sky. The 63 selected images featured 

in Sand Sea Sky: The Beaches of Sagaponack document a meteorological 

drama ranging from the threatening and explosive 

storm to the suffusing sunlight of midday and incandescent 

gloaming. In their invitation to become motionless they acquire 

an affecting intimate immensity that echoes America’s enduring 

belief in the transcendent spiritual beauty of nature. 

Tria Giovan An inveterate traveler raised in the Caribbean 

whose photography assignments have taken her all over the 

world, Giovan’s work has been published in Aperture, Elle, Esquire, 

Harpers, Travel & Leisure, and Vogue among many other 

publications. Her work has been exhibited in New York City, 

Athens, Greece, Washington, DC, and Havana, Cuba, and is in 

the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The 

Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the NY Public Library. 

Her first book Cuba: The Elusive Island was published by 

Harry N. Abrams in 1996. 

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