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.
Navvies at work, farmers in town, an amateur painter, children playing or looking at us: the suspended atmosphere in the wake of WWII. Nothing would be like it was before, but the future was as of yet unimaginable. Every shot recounts the fragment of a story, waiting for cinema to piece them together. The fifty black & white shots by Luigi Comencini (1916-2007) constitute a remarkable find, showing him as a photographer shortly before becoming a director. The images are accompanied by a series of writings by various authors who shed light on the connections between Comencini's photographs and his work both as a director and, together with
Alberto Lattuada, as one of the founders of the Cineteca Italiana in Milan in 1947: the very first film archive in our country.
Luigi Comencini (1916-2007) was one of the leading post-war Italian
film directors. After a neorealist debut, he moved on to direct almost all kinds of movie genre. His many memorable works include
Bread, Love and Dreams (1953),
Everybody Go Home (1960) and
The Scientific Cardplayer (1972). He also directed various highly successful television series:
I bambini e noi (1970),
Le avventure di Pinocchio (1972) and
L'amore in Italia (1978). In his youth, spent in Milan, he was among the founders of the Cineteca Italiana, the very first film archive in Italy.
Texts by Antonio Monda, Cristina Comencini, Giorgio Gosetti, Mario Sesti, Giovanna Calvenzi, Matteo Pavesi.
Graphic Design: Teresa Piardi, Maxwell Studio.
published in November 2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
17 x 21 cm (softcover)
96 pages (b/w ill.)
18.00 €
ISBN : 978-88-99385-19-4
EAN : 9788899385194
currently out of stock
