LIBROS DE FOTOS

Reginaldo Dal Lago, Alberto Girardi
Cierre Edizioni

L'altopiano dei Berici, alle porte di Vicenza eppure già lontano dagli spazi compressi e caotici della città, è uno degli angoli d'Italia con la più grande varietà di sfondi naturali: ampie piane assolate e morbidi profili collinari accanto a profonde incisioni vallive e a scaranti tumultuosi. Su questa base naturale multiforme si è svolta per millenni l'attività dell'uomo: le colline beriche sono state percorse, lavorate, fertilizzate dalla fatica di tante comunità. Ma a scene dove campeggia il travaglio del vivere, se ne affiancano altre di segno completamente opposto, che sembrano discendere da un mondo ideale e ruotano intorno alle magnifiche ville palladiane. L'uomo, nel plasmare il paesaggio, lo ha al tempo stesso anche studiato attraverso scienza e storiografia, lo ha interpretato nei riti e nei culti pagani e cristiani, nelle pratiche di vita, nelle credenze, nelle leggende; lo ha riflesso nella denominazione delle cose e degli individui, lo ha rappresentato nelle mappe e nella pittura, lo ha raccontato nei romanzi e nella poesia. Di questa imponente complessità tematica rende conto il volume, arricchito di un apparato fotografico.

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ERI Edizioni Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana

Michel Tavriger, Serge Jacques
La roulotte

Frans Lanting
Taschen

Les remarquables illustrations de cet ouvrage sont accompagnées d'anecdotes personnelles et de commentaires inspirés par une vie de travail auprès des animaux du monde entier, depuis les orangs-outans des forêts tropicales de Bornéo jusqu'aux manchots empereurs de l'Antarctique. Plus de 70 espèces défilent dans cette fascinante galerie de portraits qui célèbrent, chacun à sa manière, la diversité de la vie sur terre. Parmi les rares personnes qui ont fait l'expérience d'un tête-à-tête avec toutes ces créatures, Frans Lanting est le seul à lés avoir photographiées de cette manière. " J'ai vécu avec des albatros sur une petite île de l'océan Pacifique, j'ai suivi des lémuriens dans les forêts de Madagascar ; ce sont là des moments qui m'ont appris à voir le monde à travers d'autres yeux " avoue, Lanting, et il ajoute aussitôt : " Mais ce que je recherche dans ce type de contact, ce n'est pas uniquement la beauté, comme les photographes de la faune sauvage ont coutume de la glorifier. À travers mes compositions photographiques, je cherche le meilleur moyen de montrer la force et la dignité de la vie animale dans la nature. "

Roberto Grillo
Edizioni Fotogramma

Vittorio Zumaglino, Marziano Bernardi
Editore Ulrico Hoepli

H.J. Walls, G.G. Attridge
Cesco Ciapanna editore

Danilo Allegri
Edizioni della contrada

Kristina Krüger
Edizioni Gribaudo

Sabina D'Amelio
Leonardo Arte

Roland Michaud, Sabrina Michaud
Gremese Editore

Henriette Grindat, Jean Amrouche
Editions Clairefontaine

Dan Free
TUTTLE Publishing

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the Meiji era.

The importance of early railways in the industrialization of the United States and Europe is a fact all of us are familiar with. To witness the amazing parallel development of the railways in Japan, happening at much the same time as America was connecting its vast hinterland to the East and West coasts, is an eye-opening realization.

In Early Japanese Railways 1853–1914, Dan Free tells the fascinating story of the rise of Japanese rail amidst a period of rapid modernization during Japan's Meiji era. Leaving behind centuries of stagnation and isolation, Japan would emerge into the 20th century as a leading modern industrialized state. The development of the railways was a significant factor in the cultural and technological development of Japan during this pivotal period. Free's rare photographic and historical materials concerning Japan's early railways, including a print showing the miniature steam engine brought to Japan by Admiral Perry aboard his "Black Ships" to demonstrate American superiority, combine to form a richly detailed account that will appeal to students of Japanese history and railway buffs alike.

This one-of-a-kind book, Early Japanese Railways 1853–1914, illuminates for non-Japanese-speaking readers the early history of Japanese railroads, and in the process the fascinating story of Japan's prewar industrial modernization. Anyone interested in train history or mode trains will find this book a fascinating read.

Tolumitsu Iwago
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Paul Elledge
Mohawk Paper Mills

Fabio Paleari
Kaos comunicazione

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Nicola Perusini
Alinari

Richard Pankhurst, Denis Gérard
Kegan Paul International

Following the very successful Ethiopia Engraved, an illustrated book of engravings by foreign travellers from 1681 to 1900, Ethiopia Photographed covers the period from the inception of photography in the country up to the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings and rulers of Ethiopia - such as Emperor Melenik, Lej Iyasu and Emperor Haile Selassie - make it a highly photogenic country, as this lavishly illustrated book reveals.

Situated in lofty, often inaccessible mountains between the Red Sea and the Blue Nile, and extending far into the Horn of Africa, it is a complex and mysterious country which as always exercised an extraordinary fascination for the outside world. The book begins with an introduction which gives a brief history of Ethiopia in this period, and describes the role of photography at this time. The richly captured images of Ethiopia Photographed bear witness to many personalities and places not previously seen and, in many cases, now lost for all time but for the photogenic memories recorded here.

Giulia Bologna
Biblioteca Trivulziana