With Silenzio!, Francois Fontaine has built the silent inventory of a cinephile. These hazy photographs of iconic movie scenes exude sweet nostalgia, revealing slowly the intensity of their emotions. They are a tribute to the cinema as well as to photography because Francois Fontaine ...

13.11.2012[ read full story ]

« A great traveller with a passion for Africa, Nicola Lo Calzo knows that alongside cultural landmarks and fetish books, one needs a mentor and a guide to be shown the path. In his previous work “Morgante”, the role of mentor was played by Lyne Laure Nguewo, founder of ASCAPPT,...

12.11.2012[ read full story ]

Janette Beckman spent the summer of 1983 in Los Angeles, staying in the home of a good friend who was then managing the pop group, The Go-Gos. While in town, she came across a newspaper piece on the East L.A. gang scene; the story had no photographs, so Beckman took to t...

19.11.2012[ read full story ]

In 2009 Contrasto launched a new project and created the series “Box”: Photo:Box, Fashion:box, Music:Box and Movie:Box. The series was soon published abroad. The first title was Photo:Box, it has been translated from the original Italian in 10 other languages. The second book of the ser...

09.11.2012[ read full story ]

Great Photograhers is a large book of great impact, a new Contrasto editorial project just coming out in Italy and already published abroad in English and French published by Flammarion and in Spanish by Blume. The book presents the work of 20 masters of international ph...

09.11.2012[ read full story ]

The book “Up And Down Peachtre”, published by Contrasto in an international edition, is the result of Martin Parr’s vision of the city of Atlanta. This book came out at the time of the exhibition presented a few months ago at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The Museum commissio...

09.11.2012[ read full story ]

20 years after receiving the W. Eugene Smith Grant award, the “Uncle Charlie” long-term documentary project is now a book published by Contrasto. Uncle Charlie is the culmination of more than thirty years of work by photographer Marc Asnin. For those who have seen snippets of the Uncle Char...

09.11.2012[ read full story ]

Taschen will publish a limited edition book (995 copies) focusing on the topic of kimbaku, the art of Japanese bondage. Bondage devotee Araki has taken thousands of photos on the subject, and this 600-page book (240 x 290 mm) collecting his best shots comes in a 290 x 330 mm wooden...

12.11.2012[ read full story ]

A portrait of the artist is always their subject. Their ideas find form in their iconography as identity becomes manifest in the content presented and the mode of representation itself. Artists lead complex inner lives, wrestling with ideas, conflicts, and questions without answers throu...

12.11.2012[ read full story ]

The work of Frances Dal Chele in Turkey is tinged with documentary formalism. It follows her discovery of a rapidly developing country experiencing considerable social upheaval. Each step corresponds to a photographic process, beginning with architectural shots whose coldness...

07.11.2012[ read full story ]