Signed; Fulvio Roiter - Andalousie - 1957

Exceptionally signed copy on the front endpaper by Fulvio Roiter (1926-2016), found nowhere else on the internet in a signed edition. Limited edition, non-commercial, copy number 245. 120 pages and approximately 80 photographs, mainly in black and white but also in color, printed in heliogravure, with text in French by Jacques Mercanton. Semi-rigid cover with a illustrated dust jacket featuring a flaps on the cover.

To view the photographic series in full screen, double-click on a photograph, then you can return to the standard display at any time.

A successful set of images by Roiter première manière, always splendidly rendered through heliogravure: many scenes of the countryside, of nature inhabited by men and women leading austere lives... a touching book for those who love arid lands and the peoples of southern Europe and the shores of the Mediterranean.

Fulvio Roiter was born and spent his entire youth 35 kilometers from Venice. Very quickly passionate about photography, he was part of the amateur photographers' group La Gondola with Paolo Monti, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Giuseppe Bruno, and a few others. His prestigious books on Venice and the one on Saint Francis of Assisi's Umbria, both published by the Guilde du Livre in Lausanne, achieved extraordinary success across Europe. Fulvio Roiter undertook numerous journeys that led to other books, including this one about Andalusia.

Fulvio Roiter's photographic work makes him one of the most important Italian photographers of the twentieth century. As early as 1959, the renowned photography critic and historian Giuseppe Turroni described him as a 'child prodigy' of Italian photography. In 1982, Fulvio Roiter was included in the collection of Great Photographers directed by Roméo Martinez, who was the editor-in-chief of the Swiss photography magazine Camera. In 2009, an exhibition and a book-catalogue titled 'Dieci fotografi d’oro' (10 Golden Photographers) highlighted him alongside other Italian photographers, sometimes very different, such as Gabriele Basilico, Giovanni Berengo Gardin, Mario Cresci, Mimmo Jodice, Franco Fontana, Guido Guidi, and a few others.

In one of her texts, Naomi Rosenblum, a renowned American photography historian, emphasizes the harmonious synthesis of aesthetic principles and humanist values that Fulvio Roiter achieves in his work.

A book from my personal collection, kept with the utmost care, in very good condition with only very light wear to the jacket (see photo). Shipping is very securely packaged, with international tracking guaranteed.

0.7 kg excluding packaging.