Signed; Antoine d'Agata - Corpus - 2017

Rare exceptionally signed edition on the cover by Antoine d’Agata (born in ). 62 pages and 30 black-and-white photographs printed on double page (the white seems rather silvery). Swiss binding and title cover. In excellent condition.

(The Swiss binding is a binding method in which the stitching is visible. It allows assembling the different pages of a book to form a block while leaving the cover free)

A series of photographs taken in May 2014 at the Franco-Italian border in the “passo della morte”, featuring a man who walks and for whom the road becomes, for the duration of a journey, the pathetic theatre of life. “The lives of A and of his characters are these pothole-ridden, chaotic and precarious paths, which we only fully perceive at the edge of the precipice. They intersect, interlace and entwine in their perpetual exile. Their meaning perhaps lies in wandering, in self-surpassing, in surpassing the body, in the exhaustion of desire. An extreme experience of freedom. It becomes evident then that the road, this non-place, at every turn toward the elsewhere, during a journey, transforms into the pathetic theatre of life” (Jean-Baptiste Del Amo).

It should be noted that the “Passo della morte”, a mountain trail skirting the controlled road of Pont Saint-Louis in Menton, has been the scene of numerous deaths during border crossings to escape fascist Italy since the 1920s and even into the 1960s. It is today a crossing point for clandestine migrants where some migrants continue to die.

Copy in excellent condition. A book from my personal collection kept with the greatest care. Protected shipping with reinforced packaging and international tracking guaranteed. In case of multiple purchases possibility of grouped shipment with reimbursement of excess postage paid via Paypal.

0.2 kg excluding packaging