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Time Travel
The 20th century left an enormous heritage of imagery, of photographs, shot with a range of different techniques and equipment. Over the last few years, Humboldt Books has rummaged through the archives of photographers, directors, architects and artists to fish out memorable journeys, explorations into knowledge and long-forgotten reportages from the drawers. The Time Travel series collects snapshots of the 20th century, of a time when the very relationship between space and time was different and which, observed through today's eyes, takes on new values and meanings.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Photographer and writer Carla Cerati (1926-2016) captures the architectural, social and political upheavals of 1960-70s Milan.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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A series of astonishing photographs by the Italian architect and designer, discovering China at the end of the Cultural Revolution, between millenary traditions, openness to the world and forced modernization.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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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 (new edition).
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The photographs and drawings, mostly unpublished, made by the Italian architect back from the Russian front in 1941.
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The architect's photographic view of his native Rome.
2021
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The architectural images of the famous photographer on the island of Procida off Naples in 1972, presented for the first time.
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Unpublished photographs taken by Josef Albers during his travels to Mexico with Anni in the 1930s and 50s.
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The early work of the doyen of Italian photography paint a striking portrait of Italy in the 1950s.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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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.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Mario Schifano's road trip in the United States.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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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.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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A photographic journey in search of the very last bluesmen. The birth of a vocation for the Italian photographer.
2017
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Then architecture student Gabriele Basilico photographs the suburbs of Glasgow on a late summer afternoon of 1969, with its Scottish kids, terrains vagues, and 19th-century industrial archaeology. A photographic baptism for Basilico, who will become one of the main contemporary figures of the medium. The publication of this early series is completed with texts by Umberto Fiori, Pippo Ciorra, and Giovanna Calvenzi.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The troglodyte town of Matera in Southern Italy has fascinated generations of filmmakers since the Post-war area. Documenting the making of the 1953 film She-Wolf by Alberto Lattuada set in Matera, photographer Federico Patellani provides a unique insight of the life of the provincial city in the fifties.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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In 1961, L'Illustrazione Italiana sends critic Giorgio Zampa and photographer Ugo Mulas to carry out a reportage in Denmark. Along their meetings with writer Karen Blixen or Nobel Prize Nils Bohr, the two correspondents also witness the new manifestations of the Scandinavian lifestyle, characterized by its design and its modern habitats.
2016
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Marocco 1971 offers an intimate, social, and aesthetical portrait of Morocco by Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico. Set during the Summer of 1971, the series also brings back the distinctive spirit of this era.
2016
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50 black & white photographs of post-war Italy taken by director Luigi Comencini shortly before his debut behind the camera. With a series of writings establishing connections between his work as a photographer and his cinematographic oeuvre.
2016
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Carlo Mollino's photographs of a Japan in between tradition and modernity during the 1970 Universal Exposition.
2015
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A photographic journey from Yugoslavia to Iran during the 1970's.
2015
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sold out
Mario Bellini and his “Kar-a-sutra” space-mobile take a wild photographic ride in America during the seventies.
