Signed Mario Cresci - Basilicata - 1984

Exceptionally signed edition on the title page by Mario Cresci, virtually impossible to find signed copies. 240 pages and 220 color photographs, some full-page or double-page, all with detailed captions. Publisher's binding and illustrated dust jacket. In excellent condition.

Mario Cresci was born in 1942 in Chiavari near Genoa. In 1974 he moved to Matera in Basilicata, where he lived and worked until the end of the 1980s, creating a body of photographic works of great importance to Italian photography. In 1984 he participated, with Guido Guidi, Gabriele Basilico, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Mimmo Jodice, Vittore Fossati and a few others, in the project Viaggio in Italia (Voyage through Italy) conceived by Luigi Ghirri. Mario Cresci has also theorized and applied in his works the contamination between different forms of expression: photography, painting, performance, video. He thus developed a new experimental photographic language and participated many times in the Venice Biennale. Numerous exhibitions and many books showcase his work, and some of his works are preserved at MoMA in New York, alongside some works by Luigi Ghirri.

Beginning in the 1980s, the Touring Club of Italy developed a new collection “Attraverso l’Italia,” for which he worked with the greatest Italian photographers such as Luigi Ghirri, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Mario Cresci, Mimmo Jodice, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Francesco Radino, Toni Nicolini, Cesare Colombo in particular, and it happens that four of them, including Mario Cresci, took part in the project “Viaggio in Italia” directed by Luigi Ghirri. The work responding to the tourism-interest commission thus largely integrates with the author’s personal oeuvre.

Exemplary copy in excellent condition with only negligible wear to the cover or binding (see photos). A personal collection book kept with the utmost care. Protected shipping with reinforced packing and insured international postal tracking. In case of multiple purchases, possible grouped shipping with refund of excess postage paid via PayPal.

1.450 kg. excluding packaging