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William A. Ewing, Amore e desiderio
Willima A. Ewing, chief curator of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, has put together a collection of photographs that create a narrative of affection, pleasure and sexuality. Some of the photographs are anonymous and placed next to the work of some of the great masters of photography like Brassai, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Harry Callahan, August Sander, André Kertész, and even contemporary photographers like Nan Goldin, Helmut Newton and Ellen von Unwerth. The book contains more than 300 black-and-white and color photographs.

William A. Ewing, Amore e desiderio, LOGOS (Via Curtatone 5/F, Modena), 1999, 400 pages, 15 x 21 cm.

100 al 2000: Il secolo della fotoarte
This catalog was produced for the exhibition at the Villa Impero in Bologna and presents the results of the arduous task of selecting and documenting one hundred years of photographers and artists who have used their cameras to produce true works of art known all over the world. The book leaves nothing out, with in-depth analyses next to each beautifully reproduced photograph. The underlying theme of the work is the experimentation with, and reflection on, photography as art.

100 al 2000. Il secolo della fotoarte, edited by Davide Faccioli, Photology, 2000, 247 pages, 20.5 x 26 cm.

MILANO SENZA CONFINI. 10 FOTOGRAFI EUROPEI LEGGONO LA CITTA’
A beautiful, carefully-produced catalog which documents the photographic exhibition at the Spazio Oberdan in Milan. The large photographs, sharp and faithfully reproduced framed in black and white on the pages show the city of Milan through the eyes of 10 internationally-famous artists: Gabriele Basilico, Vincenzo Castella, John Davies, Peter Fischli e David Weiss, Paolo Gioli, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Mimmo Jodice, Thomas Struth and Fred Willmann. The three introductory essays by Roberta Valtorta, Eleonora Fiorani and Stefano Boeri provide background information for the rich images.

Milano Senza Confini, 10 fotografi europei leggono la città, edited by Roberta Valtorta, Silvana Editoriale (Via Margherita de Vizzi 86, Cinisello Balsamo), 2000, 134 pages, 28 x 28 cm.

CLAUDIO COSTA. L’ORDINE ROVESCIATO DELLE COSE
A lavish catalog of the exibition of a collection of works at the Villa Croce in Genoa which traces the artistic journey of this artist from the Liguria region, who died in 1995 at the age of 53. The catalog includes many works from 1968, the year before his debut solo exhibition in Genoa, and continues up to 1991, in an attempt to rekindle public interest in an artist who for some strange reason is often forgotten, despite his role as an enthusiastic pioneer in many different movements in art history. During his career, his art often took a completely different direction that isolated it from the mainstream forms of expression of the post-war period. The book includes in-depth essay by Wolfgang Becker, Giorgio Cortenova, Andrea Del Guercio, Enrico Pedrini and Sandra Solimano. Texts in Italian and English.

Claudio Costa. L’ordine rovesciato, edited by Sandra Solimano, Skira (Via Torino 61, Milano), 2000, 187 pages, 21 x 28 cm.

RICHARD SERRA
A thoughtful and tasteful work produced in conjunction with the exhibition of Richard Serra’s work at the Mercati di Traiano in Rome. The sculptures of this American artist are presented in large black-and-white photographs on elegant opaque satin paper accompanied by the comments of Mario Codognato, Lucrezia Ungaro and Ester Coen. The second part of the book contains carefully researched, well-documented essays and numerous interviews the sculptor has given over the course of his career, which provide further evidence of the poetry of his work.

Richard Serra, edited by di Mario Codognato e Ester Coen, Westzone Publishing, 1999, 237 pages, 21 x 27,5 cm.