Signed; Fulvio Roiter - Andalousie - 1957

Exceptionally signed copy on the frontispiece by Fulvio Roiter (1926-2016), unobtainable elsewhere on the internet in a signed copy. Limited edition, off-market print run, copy no. 245. 120 pages and about 80 photographs, mostly black and white but also color, heliogravure printed, French text by Jacques Mercanton. Semi-hard cover with a dust jacket, illustrated on the cover.

To view the photographic series full screen, double-click on a photograph, with the option to return to standard display at any time.

"Fine set of images successfully captured by Roiter in his first manner and always magnificently served by heliography: many scenes of the countryside, nature populated by men and women with austere lives ... a touching book for those who love arid lands and the peoples of southern Europe and the shores of the Mediterranean." (Eric Desachy and Guy Mandery, La Guilde du Livre, 2012).

Fulvio Roiter was born and lived his entire youth 35 kilometers from Venice. Very quickly passionate about photography, he was part of the group of amateur photographers La Gondola with Paolo Monti, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Giuseppe Bruno, and a few others. His prestigious books on Venice and the one on Saint Francis of Assisi in Umbria, both published by La Guilde du Livre in Lausanne, enjoyed extraordinary success in Europe, and Fulvio Roiter undertook numerous journeys that led to other books, including this one on Andalusia.

Fulvio Roiter’s photographic work makes him one of the most important Italian photographers of the twentieth century. As early as 1959, the renowned photography critic and historian Giuseppe Turroni described him as a “child prodigy” of Italian photography. In 1982 Roiter joined the collection of Great Photographers directed by Roméo Martinez, who was editor-in-chief of the Swiss photography magazine Camera. In 2009, an exhibition and a catalog book, Dieci fotografi d’oro (10 golden photographers), highlighted him alongside other sometimes very different Italian photographers such as Gabriele Basilico, Giovanni Berengo Gardin, Mario Cresci, Mimmo Jodice, Franco Fontana, Guido Guidi, and others.

In one of his texts, Naomi Rosenblum, renowned American photography historian, stresses the harmonious synthesis of aesthetic principles and humanist values that Fulvio Roiter achieves in his work.

Book from my personal collection kept with the greatest care, in very good condition with very slight wear to the dust jacket (see photo). Very secure shipping and internationally trackable.

0.7 kg excluding packaging