Aldo Bonasia - L'Io in divisa - 1978

Collection of "images for a social analysis" - as the subtitle of the book states, by Aldo Bonasia, one of the photojournalists who best documented demonstrations and street clashes in the turbulent Milan of the 1970s.
L’Io in Divisa presents about 70 black-and-white photographs that focus on police in a warlike stance, clashes between law enforcement and protesters, scenes of urban guerrilla warfare among officers with weapons drawn and clouds of tear gas filling the streets of Milan.
To accompany the images, some voices drawn from Luigi Salerno’s Encyclopedia of Policing.
The title of the book is a wordplay on the most famous work of psychiatrist Ronald Laing, The Divided Self.