Andante (last copy)
by Alex Majoli
Photographs: Alex Maioli
Publisher: Cesura Publish
74 pages
Pictures: 40
Year: 2018
Comments: first edition of 750 copies, offset, embossed cover, size: 15x21 cm
Andante is the catalogue of an exhibition that goes from 1985 to 2018, in which the artist Alex Majoli researches the human soul and the most obscure elements of society. The subtle line between reality and theatre, documentary and art, human behaviour and acting is the exact friction that amazes and makes him go back on the streets and in the places where the human condition is put into question. Even in the most tragic of miseries, he is capable to find the pride and, most of all, the greatness of human soul. Majoli can be considered a provocateur for the images he uses: he represents the theatrical dynamics of life, the human actions seem to take inspiration from a theatre show and he emphasizes all the drama of everyday’s life using artificial light. His photos become scenes where people in their “performance/life” express themselves on what becomes an undeclared stage or film set.
The career of Alex Majoli, member of the prestigious Magnum Photos starts very early in the atelier of Casadio and Malanca. It is only after having photographed the closing of the renowned mental institution on the island of Leros in Greece that he finds his identity as an artist, giving birth to his first namesake monography . The initial interest of the artist in the theories of the pioneer of the modern concept of mental health Franco Basaglia, who is also famous for having abolished mental hospitals in Italy, pushes him to go to Brasil, where the theories are enthusiastically adopted. Alex Majoli has photographed the South American country for twenty years, collecting a series of images depicting the complex Brazilian society in the project Tudo bom, which is still in progress.
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Andante (last copy)
by Alex Majoli
Photographs: Alex Maioli
Publisher: Cesura Publish
74 pages
Pictures: 40
Year: 2018
Comments: first edition of 750 copies, offset, embossed cover, size: 15x21 cm
Andante is the catalogue of an exhibition that goes from 1985 to 2018, in which the artist Alex Majoli researches the human soul and the most obscure elements of society. The subtle line between reality and theatre, documentary and art, human behaviour and acting is the exact friction that amazes and makes him go back on the streets and in the places where the human condition is put into question. Even in the most tragic of miseries, he is capable to find the pride and, most of all, the greatness of human soul. Majoli can be considered a provocateur for the images he uses: he represents the theatrical dynamics of life, the human actions seem to take inspiration from a theatre show and he emphasizes all the drama of everyday’s life using artificial light. His photos become scenes where people in their “performance/life” express themselves on what becomes an undeclared stage or film set.
The career of Alex Majoli, member of the prestigious Magnum Photos starts very early in the atelier of Casadio and Malanca. It is only after having photographed the closing of the renowned mental institution on the island of Leros in Greece that he finds his identity as an artist, giving birth to his first namesake monography . The initial interest of the artist in the theories of the pioneer of the modern concept of mental health Franco Basaglia, who is also famous for having abolished mental hospitals in Italy, pushes him to go to Brasil, where the theories are enthusiastically adopted. Alex Majoli has photographed the South American country for twenty years, collecting a series of images depicting the complex Brazilian society in the project Tudo bom, which is still in progress.
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Passeggiata napoletana (signed)
by Arturo Zavattini
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Euro 38.50 -
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Euro 33 13.20 -
the WAR - A Sicilian Story
by Tony Gentile
sold out -
Continuo Infinito Provvisorio
by Alessandro Ruzzier
Euro 33 -
ÉTÉ (signed)
by Olaf Unverzart
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by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 75 -
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Euro 60 42.00 -
Ferdinand Schmutzer - A Photographic Discovery (review copy)
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
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by David Levenson
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tragedy of a venus 1975
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Euro 25 -
At the Edge of the World (signed)
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Poultry Suite
by Jean Pagliuso
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by Javier Viver
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Euro 60 -
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Andante (last copy)
by Alex Majoli
Photographs: Alex Maioli
Publisher: Cesura Publish
74 pages
Pictures: 40
Year: 2018
Comments: first edition of 750 copies, offset, embossed cover, size: 15x21 cm
Andante is the catalogue of an exhibition that goes from 1985 to 2018, in which the artist Alex Majoli researches the human soul and the most obscure elements of society. The subtle line between reality and theatre, documentary and art, human behaviour and acting is the exact friction that amazes and makes him go back on the streets and in the places where the human condition is put into question. Even in the most tragic of miseries, he is capable to find the pride and, most of all, the greatness of human soul. Majoli can be considered a provocateur for the images he uses: he represents the theatrical dynamics of life, the human actions seem to take inspiration from a theatre show and he emphasizes all the drama of everyday’s life using artificial light. His photos become scenes where people in their “performance/life” express themselves on what becomes an undeclared stage or film set.
The career of Alex Majoli, member of the prestigious Magnum Photos starts very early in the atelier of Casadio and Malanca. It is only after having photographed the closing of the renowned mental institution on the island of Leros in Greece that he finds his identity as an artist, giving birth to his first namesake monography . The initial interest of the artist in the theories of the pioneer of the modern concept of mental health Franco Basaglia, who is also famous for having abolished mental hospitals in Italy, pushes him to go to Brasil, where the theories are enthusiastically adopted. Alex Majoli has photographed the South American country for twenty years, collecting a series of images depicting the complex Brazilian society in the project Tudo bom, which is still in progress.
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Passeggiata napoletana (signed)
by Arturo Zavattini
Euro 36 -
Petrus
by Francesca Catastini
Euro 38.50 -
Venezia oscura
by Gerhard Ullmann
Euro 33 13.20 -
the WAR - A Sicilian Story
by Tony Gentile
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Continuo Infinito Provvisorio
by Alessandro Ruzzier
Euro 33 -
ÉTÉ (signed)
by Olaf Unverzart
sold out
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Die grossen Fotografinnen
by various photographers
sold out -
Austrian Documentary Photography
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 75 -
Die Sahraouis
by Christine de Grancy
Euro 60 42.00 -
Ferdinand Schmutzer - A Photographic Discovery (review copy)
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 75 37.50 -
British Rituals
by David Levenson
Euro 9.50 -
Chinesen
by Christine de Grancy
Euro 60 42.00
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The Bolshoi
by Sasha Gusov
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tragedy of a venus 1975
by Sanja Iveković
Euro 25 -
At the Edge of the World (signed)
by Alain Laboile
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Poultry Suite
by Jean Pagliuso
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Within Shadows (signed)
by Susan Burnstine
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Révélations. Iconographie de La Salpêtrière. Paris 1875-1918
by Javier Viver
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James Dean (signed)
by Dennis Stock
Euro 1500 -
Big Champ (signed)
by Thomas Hoepker
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by Bruce Gilden
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Wer sind Sie, Henri Cartier-Bresson?
by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Euro 60 -
Wild Pigeon
by Carolyn Drake
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Roma
by Josef Koudelka
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New Documentary (signed - last copy)
by Takashi Homma
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Lotus (signed)
by Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn
Euro 55 -
Anderswo (signed + print)
by Erich Lessing
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Golden days before they end (English edition)
by Klaus Pichler
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TEXAS TRIANGLE
by Alec Soth
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