A book publishing company, an agency, a foundation. Contrasto is one of the most lively photography place in Italy. We decided to dedicate this day to them. Contrasto is the preeminent publishing house for photography and illustrated books in Italy. For more than 15 years, its ...

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Fondazione FORMA per la Fotografia: the foundation's history and mission in the words of Artistic Director Alessandra Mauro, who is also Editorial Director of Contrasto. Interview by Valentina Notarberardino. Milan's FORMA Foundation for photography, Italy's very own photograp...

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Forma will open two important exhibitions next year. Both of them are Forma productions and will then travel to other countries. 
A first European retrospective of Gordon Parks in collaboration with the Gordon Parks Foundation and another curated by Alessandra Mauro and France...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Contrasto has just launched the second and essential chapter of the international Great Photographers app series, available soon on I-tunes store. It will be dedicated to William Klein. Just a year ago Contrasto realized the first app dedicated to Mario Giacomelli.

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In the wide range of Contrasto publications, recently it has released two documentary films dedicated to photographers Antoine D’Agata and Martin Parr.

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FORMA Foundation for photography in Milan has just opened the first retrospective dedicated to Nino Migliori, one of the italian masters of photography. In the 50s he was one of the protagonists of the great Italian neo-realist movement. The exhibition brings together his famous p...

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Born in 2006, The F Award is a biennial international award for concerned photography launched by Forma Foundation for Photography. The F Award is inspired by the following words, published in 1972 by Cornell Capa: “They are concerned photographers who demonstrate in their work a hum...

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The exhibition of Marc Asnin opened yesterday in New York. Laurence Cornet met Marc on this occasion. Here is a review. « I burned on that stoop. The warm weather come, you stay on the stoop. That’s why my butt is shaped like two grips. I’ve seen life passing me by at hurric...

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