During reconstruction of the Italian economy following World War II, the newly established Italian republic and its American allies implemented a program of land reform, the Riforma Fondiaria, which r
Night pharmacy is the first photo book by Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo. The book is a beautiful, fun and surreal conversation on photography, which illustrates their hunger to see, and their need to
Italy holds 190 penitentiaries – among them, 5 female prisons and 52 women’s wards. Valerio Bispuri is the first photographer authorized by the Italian Penitentiary Administration Department of the Mi
Resilient is the first book by Marco Gualazzini, a photographer who collaborates with the most important national and international magazines and whose work is represented by the Contrasto Agency. Res
The first photo book on Tokyo’s iconic fish market - Tsukiji. Tsukiji, the largest fish market in the world, has been based in central Tokyo since 1935. Considered a sacred place by Japanese restaura
Documents the creation of a unique collection of contemporary photography for the Vatican Museums. A Matter of Light brings together the eyes of nine masters of international photography called to in
There is a lot of casual chat about photography, justas there is a lot of casual photography. But there havealways been articulate voices, able to see past the obvious,around the distracting, and thro
Marco Paoli travelled through Tuscany as if it were the last strange and wild land to discover. The pictures of Hallelujah Toscana tell a different, magical and mysterious region, in any case a land n
The result of long journeys in which, for years, the author went through the countries of the world where religions coexist, Sacred Crossings documents the last oases of encounter between faiths, free
Paco is the result of a long-term project about the life cycle of a new drug. An investigation on its production, trafficking, consumption, addicts and victims. Sold for less than half a dollar per d
The Appleby’s Horse Fair takes place every year in early June, when 10,000-15,000 English and Welsh Gypsies, Scottish and Irish Travellers gather to buy and sell horses, meet with friends and relation
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Maison européenne de la photographie (Paris, April 20th – June 18th 2017), as the preavious books in 2007 and 2013, this year’s catalogue offers a gr
Harraga is the term that illegally travelling, Arabic-speaking migrants use to define themselves. Here, Giulio Piscitelli’s photographs, and the texts that accompany them, document the various stage
Selected by TIME LightBox as a Best Photobook of 2016Winner of the Pictures of the Year International 2016 Best Photography Book award"Zackary Canepari’s photobook Rex wades into a fully formed set of
Fascinated by the trees, their shape and their symbolic meaning, Irene Kung focuses her objective on Mother Nature’s creations and takes photos of old-growth and young plants, proving her great skill.
For the first time in Italy, Contrasto offers to the public an exclusive book, from the book collection In Parole, that merges Jack London incredible and well-known literature with his yet unpublished
Photography as the chosen means of artistic expression narrates the great themes of Expo 2015. Magnum Photos and Contrasto in an ambitious project bringing great photography to Expo Milano 2015. This
In the summer of 1959, Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled the entire Italian coastline at the wheel of a Fiat 1100. His diary,The Long Road of Sand, was published in three installments in the magazineSucces
With Open Eyes is the collection of Mario Calabresi''s interviews with renowned international photographers (Steve McCurry, Don McCullin, Elliott Erwitt, Paul Fusco, Josef Koudelka, Alex Webb, Gabriel
Tatge’s eye is attentive, measured, both cultured and passionate. And the Italy that he photographs for us reveals the fascination and mystery of its magnificent and still so fragile equilibrium. “One
I remember Mario Giacomelli is a documentary by Lorenzo Cicconi Massi dedicated to the great master of photography.The work of Massi is an intimate reportage, a story in pictures and words that spread
ENCERRADOS is a voyage lasting ten years, through seventy-four prisons across Latin America; a journey born from the desire to recount a continent through a prisoner''s world. Valerio Bispuri''s pictu
Tim Parchikov has developed a conceptual approach out of his travel experiences, capturing the world with an uneasy and curious eye, rendering it at the same time hyper-real and yet pictorial. TheSusp
With a kindness and a disarming simplicity, Salgado rebuilds its path, exposes his beliefs, makes us sharers of his emotions. It turns out that his talent as a storyteller and the authenticity of a ma
A refined book that collects a selection of Barbara Luisi''s vivid yet delicate images. Evocative seascapes, photographed with a great skill, where lights and water melt in a dreamlike atmosphere.
Ever since it was invented in the 19th Century, photography has been used by companies for the purposes of production, communication, identification and memory. Photography has also spurred changes in
Max Kozloff walks down the streets of New York and offers to the viewer his peculiar vision of a colorful, multi-ethnic, and multi-faceted city. A series of funny pictures that can surprise and drive
Acquerello is the ultimate Carnaroli "extra" rice, produced and packed by the Rondolino family on the Colombara farm in the heart of Vercelli province. Its success is the result of extensive research
Venice''s Giardini di Castello has been home to the exhibition pavilions of the International Art Biennale since 1895. As part of the thirteenth Architecture Biennale, various architects, philosophers
Stefano Cerio asserts photography''s ability to render manifest the invisible, what is usually hidden from the eye?not, as the modernist tradition embodied by the "new vision" would have it, by exploi
"For three years I followed the monastic community of Luang Prabang, catching the moments of growth and those of emptiness."For the first time a woman is allowed into a Buddhist monastery, discovering
