Signed Pepi Merisio - Convivio - 2015

Exceptional copy signed on the title page by Pepi Merisio (1931 – 2021), unattainable online in a signed edition, 112 pages and more than 80 photographs in black and white and in color, most full-page and some double-page with detailed captions and dating, soft cover with flaps and illustrated cover.

This term “convivio” can be translated as a banquet, and it signals the conviviality that is created through food. Accordingly, these photographs celebrate agriculture and livestock, human labor, and of course meals shared together whether at the workplace, at home in modest kitchens or in beautiful dining rooms, or in popular taverns.

Pepi Merisio, an independent photographer, spent virtually his whole life on the territory of Bergamo, which he explored in its entirety, traversing its plains and valleys as well as the high mountain villages. He quickly gained substantial international recognition, since in July 1966 the Camera magazine, published in Lucerne, Switzerland in French, dedicated a major feature to him. While director of Camera, Roméo Martinez introduced him into the collection Les Grands photographes (https://www.messinissalibri.com/prodotto/152963-i-grandi-fotografi-pepi-merisio) and Pepi Merisio signed—with Gianni Berengo Gardin, who regarded him as a brother in photography—the volume on Latium for the Touring Club of Italy.

The illustrious photographer Ferdinando Scianna stated in 2021 upon Pepi Merisio’s death: “I met Pepi in 1967 when I had just arrived from Sicily, and he already had great international prestige.” “He had just won an international prize with the reportage on Old Zio Angelo’s death; many people gravitated around him and I had great admiration... He had chosen his visual relation 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 a direct one... He was a great anthropologist of the rural 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 we are going anywhere at all.” (https://bergamo.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/21_febbraio_04/ferdinando-sciannalui-ci-fa-capire-dove-veniamo-19b7d422-66bc-11eb-8ada-57b39586265a.shtml)

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0.8 kg excluding packaging