Humboldt Books

Run by Giovanna Silva, Humboldt is an Italian publishing house based in Milan. Humboldt draws inspiration from scientific explorations of the 18th and 19th centuries with the aim of examining travel narrative today. Humboldt collects multidisciplinary experiences, combines knowledge and practices for recounting travels and countries with a watchful and unconventional eye. Humboldt investigates the intersection of journey with geography, literature and art. The publishing house has three editorial lines: Travel Books, Artists' Books, Atlas. A series of special projects and an online section complete the catalogue.
 
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95 titles
Series:
 
Paul Thek - Italian Hours
Paul Thek
Italian Hours
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
forthcoming
A collection of works reflecting the influence of Italy on Paul Thek's artistic trajectory, with several contributions highlighting his Italian period.
Rä di Martino - Carmelo Bene - Là dove muore, canta
Rä di Martino
Carmelo Bene – Là dove muore, canta
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
forthcoming
Carmelo Bene. Là dove muore, canta is the work of the artist Rä di Martino and she comes to terms with the memory of Carmelo Bene (1937–2002), through his archive materials.
Cy Twombly - Marocco 1952/1953
Cy Twombly
Marocco 1952/1953
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
forthcoming
The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Viaggio in America - Stati Uniti e Canada 1831-32
Alexis de Tocqueville
Viaggio in America – Stati Uniti e Canada 1831-32
2023
Italian edition
forthcoming
Tocqueville's travel notes, enriched by a photo essay by Ramak Fazel.
Civil Architecture - Foreign Architecture / Domestic Policy
Civil Architecture
Foreign Architecture / Domestic Policy
2022
English edition
A project by architects Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Karimi questioning geopolitical strategies related to the development of Kuwait's global oil distribution.
Enrico Peressutti - URSS 1941
Enrico Peressutti
URSS 1941
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The photographs and drawings, mostly unpublished, made by the Italian architect back from the Russian front in 1941.
Invernomuto - Black Med
Invernomuto
Black Med
2022
English edition
The long term project of the Italian artistic duo around the trajectories of sound through the Mediterranean sea.
Michael Höpfner - From Here to Tibet - A conversation between two walking artists. March 2019 – July 2020
Hamish Fulton, Michael Höpfner
From Here to Tibet – A conversation between two walking artists. March 2019 – July 2020
2022
English edition
Fulton and Höpfner's long-term correspondence on art, landscape, and the aesthetic and political dimensions of walking.
Francesco M. Cataluccio - Non c\'è nessuna Itaca - Viaggio in Lituania
Francesco M. Cataluccio
Non c'è nessuna Itaca – Viaggio in Lituania
2022
Italian edition
The return to Lithuania of Francesco Cataluccio.
Space Caviar - Dixit Algorizmi - The Garden of Knowledge
Space Caviar, Sheida Ghomashchi
Dixit Algorizmi – The Garden of Knowledge
2022
English edition
Dixit Algorizmi. The Garden of Knowledge sets out to question the origin myths and narratives surrounding modern technologies, using the lens of contemporary artistic practices to explore their forgotten roots and overlooked resonances with distant places, times and cultures (catalogue of the Uzbekistan's pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2022).
Tiane Doan na Champassak - Indo-Chine
Tiane Doan na Champassak
Indo-Chine
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
The photographic works of the artist Tiane Doan na Champassak's grandmother, Alsatian married to a Vietnamese in Baden Baden in 1913.
Jacopo Valentini - Concerning Dante - Autonomous Cell
Jacopo Valentini
Concerning Dante – Autonomous Cell
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A Dantean geography.
Editorial - An Exhibition in Words
Editorial – An Exhibition in Words
2022
English edition
Ten contemporary Italian writers dialogue with the works displayed in the exhibition inaugurating Luca Lo Pinto's program at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.
Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli - A Season in Slemani
Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli
A Season in Slemani
2021
English edition
A series of artistic residencies in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Ludovico Quaroni - Roma 1968
Ludovico Quaroni
Roma 1968
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The architect's photographic view of his native Rome.
Gustave Flaubert - Lettere dall\'Egitto
Gustave Flaubert, Nathalie du Pasquier
Lettere dall'Egitto
2021
Italian edition
The Italian edition of Flaubert's account of his trip to Egypt, illustrated by Nathalie du Pasquier.
Mahalla - The Survey (box set)
Mahalla – The Survey (box set)
2021
English edition
Mahalla – The Survey offers a scientific investigation and an artistic statement which aims at a critical reading and a tentative exploration of a fascinating Uzbek cultural heritage: the mahalla (luxury box set including numerous documents, a 7" vinyl record by Carlos Casas and exclusive art prints by Bas Princen).
Gabriele Basilico - Non recensiti
Gabriele Basilico
Non recensiti
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Gabriele Basilico's previoulsy unpublished photographs in the strip-tease theaters and nightclubs of Milan in the 1970s reveal a new dimension of his oeuvre.
Paolo Monti - Procida 1972
Paolo Monti
Procida 1972
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The architectural images of the famous photographer on the island of Procida off Naples in 1972, presented for the first time.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - Gloria
Giorgio Andreotta Calò
Gloria
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The text and photo diary of a forty-day journey on foot from Venice to L'Aquila, following the subterranean fracture where the European and African tectonic plates meet, in search of the symbolic dimension and the real effects of seismic waves.
Josef Albers - Messico 1935/1956
Josef Albers
Messico 1935/1956
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Unpublished photographs taken by Josef Albers during his travels to Mexico with Anni in the 1930s and 50s.
Louis De Belle - Cartographies
Louis De Belle
Cartographies
2021
English edition
A photographic series that portrays details of the clothes of passers-by glimpsed along the streets of Manhattan (artist's book).
Giovanna Silva - Togliatti - The FIAT Factory
Claudio Giunta, Giovanna Silva
Togliatti – The FIAT Factory
2021
Italian edition
A look back at social and intimate history of the automotive industry in the 1960s and 1970s, between the USSR and Italy.
Carlos Casas - Cemetery - Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond
Carlos Casas
Cemetery – Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond
2021
English edition
Cemetery. Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond compiles a selection of the visual and research materials accumulated during the development of the film and project Cemetery (2009–2019).
Nino Migliori - Gente del Delta 1958
Nino Migliori
Gente del Delta 1958
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The early work of the doyen of Italian photography paint a striking portrait of Italy in the 1950s.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Cloud Behavior
Nanna Debois Buhl
Cloud Behavior
2020
English edition
A study of clouds through photographs, drawings, essays, and interviews.
Enzo Mari - Falce e martello / The Hammer and Sickle
Enzo Mari
Falce e martello / The Hammer and Sickle
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The expanded anastatic reprint of the Italian designer's sulphurous catalog of 1973.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Campo di Marte
Nathalie du Pasquier
Campo di Marte
2020
English edition
Artist's book.
Michele Lombardelli - California
Michele Lombardelli
California
2020
English edition
A collection of photographs and drawings retracing the founding Californian experience of the artist.
Federico Patellani - Stromboli 1949
Federico Patellani
Stromboli 1949
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
In the spring of 1949, while they were shooting “Stromboli” on the island of the same name, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini began a love affair which was to cause a scandal. The great photographer Federico Patellani documented the development of the film as well as life on the island.
Daniela Comani - Planet Earth - 21st Century
Daniela Comani
Planet Earth – 21st Century
2020
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
A collection of 360 postcards of cities from all around the world, made with screenshots from 3D software Apple Maps and Google Earth.
Jonas Mekas - Transcript 04 44\' 14\
Jonas Mekas
Transcript 04 44' 14" – Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
2020
bilingual edition (English / Lithuanian)
Full transcript of Mekas's Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR: a five-hour-long film made up of footage from US television newscasts covering the independence of Lithuania and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Fog Friend Font - Ways of Doing Multilingual Sense (box set)
Fog Friend Font – Ways of Doing Multilingual Sense (box set)
2020
English edition (texts in Inuktitut and other languages)
Box set comprising five books, a vinyl and a supplementary dust jacket, each highlighting different practices and transformative developments occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today as triggered by digital communication.
Carlo Levi a San Costantino Albanese - Archivi della Basilicata – Vol. 2
Carlo Levi a San Costantino Albanese – Archivi della Basilicata – Vol. 2
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Three multidisciplinary essays—from cultural anthropology to photography analysis—based on visual archives documenting the visit of writer, painter and politician Carlo Levi to an Albanian community in Southern Italy (second volume in the series “Archivi della Basilicata”).
Antonio Rovaldi - The Sound of the Woodpecker Bill - New York City
Antonio Rovaldi
The Sound of the Woodpecker Bill – New York City
2019
English edition
This publication documents a visual research on the perimeters of all five boroughs of New York, featuring a photographic portfolio, a set of maps and a series of texts.
Luca Vitone - Romanistan
Luca Vitone
Romanistan
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Both a journal and a photographic report, this publication documents Luca Vitone's travel from Italy to India, in the footsteps of the first Roma migrations between the eighth and fourteenth centuries.
La Bonifica di Bradano e Metaponto - Archivi della Basilicata – Vol. 1
La Bonifica di Bradano e Metaponto – Archivi della Basilicata – Vol. 1
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The first in a series of publications dedicated to the exploration of the archives of the Italian region of Basilicata from an artistic perspective. This volume focuses on areas affected by the reclamation of the water system.
Lisetta Carmi - Genova 1960 / 1970
Lisetta Carmi
Genova 1960 / 1970
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
This publication features a selection of photographs by Lisetta Carmi, documenting the social transformations of Genoa during the 1960s. Carmi witnessed the economic boom of the city, but also its everyday life, including her famous photo series of transvestites which caused a scandal at the time.
Lele Saveri - Hong Kong Barricades
Lele Saveri
Hong Kong Barricades
2019
English edition
Images of the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong by Italian photographer Lele Saveri.
Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics
Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics
2019
English edition
Aesthetics and politics of architecture of logistics.
Neither Nor / Né altra né questa - The challenge to the Labyrinth / La sfida al Labirinto
Neither Nor / Né altra né questa – The challenge to the Labyrinth / La sfida al Labirinto
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The catalogue of the Italian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale investigates and develops the theme chosen by the curator Milovan Farronato for the exhibition: the labyrinth.
Antonio Grulli - Tel Aviv - Jerusalem Diary
Keren Cytter, Antonio Grulli
Tel Aviv – Jerusalem Diary
2019
English edition
A travel diary / a screenplay.
Mario Schifano - America 1970
Mario Schifano
America 1970
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mario Schifano's road trip in the United States.
Linda Fregni Nagler - Yama no Shashin
Linda Fregni Nagler
Yama no Shashin
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
This publication presents a project by Linda Fregni Nagler about the photographic “School of Yokohama”, which emerged during the Meiji era in Japan. Over the past ten years, the artist has collected hand-colored photographs of this period representing Mount Fuji. She re-photographed them, printed them and colored them by hand, according to colorization method of that time.
Gabriele Basilico - Free Zone 2006
Gabriele Basilico
Free Zone 2006
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
In 2006, film director Amos Gitai invited Gabriele Basilico to undertake a journey retracing the locations of the shooting of Gitai's film Free Zone, on the demilitarized zone between Israel and Jordan. This publication follows this unique photographic project.
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