Roberta valtorta texts (4 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. 1st. 123 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Text in Italian and English. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin, September 9 to November 5, 2000. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** Beat Streuli (b. 1957] is a Swiss photographer and video installation artist best known for his street portraiture. *** "Beat Streuli uses techniques from photojournalism, advertising and documentary filmmaking for his photographs, videos, and slides. His main interest lies in capturing the expressions and gestures of people absorbed in their daily lives on the streets of large metropolises. The Result is a series of interesting portraits of contemporary society, collected in the pages of this fourth catalogue in the "Sightings" series, that, for the exhibition at GAM of Torino, have been made in the cities of Torino, Chicago, East Jerusalem, Enghien and Yamaguchi." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Softcover. Condizione: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z/B : 24 x 29 cm, 160 pages, 85 color and 17 b/w photos - This monograph is a survey of Beat Streuli's oeuvre of the last 15 years, which includes billboards and large-scale window installations on the facades of public buildings, and a selection of his installations of slide and video projections. Streuli by Streuli: an extensive image sequence mostly taken by the artist himself documents Streuli's rejection of the classic museum exhibition context. Instead he takes the photographs back to their place of origin public space.…

Paperback. First edition. Very Good with light wear to edges and tips. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, BOXED. 104 pages; color photographs through out; 8 x 11 inches. Stiff Wraps with French folds. From an edition of 1200 copies. Text in French and Italian. Out of Print. Italian artist who uses photography as a starting point. Best known for monotypes including ones made from found pornography and from original nudes. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+ to fine condition. First Italian edition. Signed "Gabriele Basilico 7-IX-96" on half-title. Large Quarto. 118 (1)pp. Original anthracite cloth with white lettering on cover and spine, in photo-illustrated dustjacket, gray and black lettering on spine. Black endpapers. Design by Maurizio Zanuso. Texts by Aldo Rossi and Roberta Valtorta. Considered one of the most important books in the history of photography. Extraordinary collection of seventy-six b/w photographs, many of them double page, showing wide, topographical views of harbors and their environment, developed for an exhibition at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne in 1990. ".this formal strategy actually works in an anti-formal way, stressing the informational value of imagery." (Parr & Badger, The Photobook, Vol. II, pp. 62/63.) Text in Italian. Dustjacket with light wear along edges, very light creasing and front cover lightly rubbed. Book in fine condition. …