Signed Pepi Merisio - Mi Chiamo Donna - 1972

Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Pepi Merisio (1931 – 2021), unavailable online as a signed copy, 258 pages and more than 60 black-and-white photographs, some double-page, texts in Italian by Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Le Fort, Edith Stein, Florence Nightingale; brown leatherette binding with the title embossed in white on the spine and illustrated dust jacket.

In his photographic work Pepi Merisio has always been attentive to the daily life of women as well as to the hard labor they undertook, and this book presents some images that are accompanied by literary texts written by women. An opportunity to celebrate International Women’s Day with a small delay.

Pepi Merisio, an independent photographer, lived almost his entire life on the territory of Bergamo, which he explored in its entirety and traversed all its plains and valleys as well as the villages high in the mountains. He quickly gained significant international recognition, since in July 1966 the Swiss edition of Camera, published in Lucerne in French, devoted a major dossier to him. While director of Camera magazine, Roméo Martinez introduced him into the collection Les Grands photographes (https://www.messinissalibri.com/prodotto/152963-i-grandi-fotografi-pepi-merisio) and Pepi Merisio, who regarded Gianni Berengo Gardin as a brother in photography, co-signed with him the volume on Latium for the Touring Club of Italy.

The illustrious photographer Ferdinando Scianna declared in 2021 at Pepi Merisio’s death: “I met Pepi in 1967 when I had just arrived from Sicily, and he already had a great international prestige.” “He had just won an international prize with the report on the death of Zio Angelo; many people gravitated around him and I had great admiration... He had chosen his visual relationship to the world, the world he wanted to talk about and the way he wanted to do it... He had a political-cultural commitment more than direct... He was a great anthropologist of the peasant world. His archives are a cultural treasure that we will continue to need to understand where we come from and where we are going, if indeed we are going somewhere.” (https://bergamo.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/21_febbraio_04/ferdinando-sciannalui-ci-fa-capire-dove-veniamo-19b7d422-66bc-11eb-8ada-57b39586265a.shtml)

Book from my personal collection kept with the utmost care, in very good overall condition with a slight aging wear, particularly of the dust jacket. Shipped protected with reinforced packaging and guaranteed international tracking. In case of multiple purchases, the possibility of grouped shipping with reimbursement of any excess postage paid via Paypal.

1.1 kg, excluding packaging