Nino Migliori - Segni - 2004

Signs - Nino Migliori
Limited edition
Sample number: 78


Specifications
A volume of over 300 pages.
Format 24 x 31.5 cm
280 photographs divided into nine chapters: Realism, Experimentation, Herbarium, In
Toboga a…, Italian Sketchbook, TV Sequences, Freeze-Frame, Sex Kitsch, For Eve-
Metis
Ikono Matt classic coated paper, premium, 200 g/m².
Cover and spine in black cloth, with silver trim and print.

“Segni” is a work that enchants and surprises, a journey into light, matter, and visual memory. Nino Migliori, born in Bologna in 1926, is one of the leading figures of Italian photography in the postwar era, capable of marrying technical experimentation with poetic reflection. As early as the 1950s, Migliori explored the limits of traditional photography, experimenting with light, surfaces, and alternative techniques, helping to redefine the language of contemporary photography in Italy and beyond.

In “Segni”, every trace, every detail on the photographic surface becomes testimony of a gesture, of an emotion, of a suspended moment, capable of evoking inner worlds and invisible landscapes. The work also reflects the tensions and artistic explorations of the second half of the twentieth century, when photography established itself as an autonomous language, between informality, abstraction, and conceptual research.

The series showcases Migliori's extraordinary ability to engage with time: the present fuses with memory, light shapes space, and the void becomes the protagonist, creating a perfect balance between abstraction and tangible matter.
The treated surfaces, the textures that seem to breathe, the deeply meditative tones, make “Segni” a unique visual experience, in which the observer’s gaze becomes part of the story itself.

This collection is not just a sequence of images: it is an invitation to perceive the world through the artist's sensibility, to recognize the details that elude everyday life, and to let oneself be surprised by the poetry hidden in the small signs of reality.