Over the years I have assembled quite a large collection of photographic monographs of photographers who's work I like. André Kertész, Cartier Bresson and all the usual authors, together with less famous photographers who have put out interesting work. But over the last few years, I have seen less and less new monographs which temp me. The editorial market seems content to republish the same old names, or publish "conceptual photography" that leaves me cold. I think it has been a couple of years since I last purchased a photographic monograph.
Today I came across this book, with photography that I just could not resist:
It is available on Amazon UK and I quess in the rest of Europe. It is in Italian, but the text does not matter much.
I photographed Aterbaletto, an important Italian dance company for ten years back in the nineties, so I know a little about Dance photography. This guy is really fantastic. In fact this is some of the best photography I have seen for a long while, that goes beyond reportage.
In an art photogrphy world now dominated by piss poor photogrphy with a "conceptual" tag attached justify its existence. It is nice to see some new good photogrphy is still being exhibited and published.
