Signed; Pepi Merisio - Vivere nelle Alpi - 1979

Exceptionally signed edition on the title page by Pepi Merisio (1931 – 2021), unavailable online in a signed copy. 200 pages and 124 black-and-white and full-page color photographs, some double-page with detailed captions in Italian at the head of each chapter, publisher’s illustrated hardcover binding in the cover design.

This book published in 1979 illustrates a lifestyle that had disappeared or was about to disappear at the time of publication in the villages and countryside of the Alpine mountains, with images of daily life in the villages, agricultural work—which was then essentially manual—family life and children's games, as well as religious processions. Pepi Merisio, an independent photographer, spent almost all his life in the Bergamo region, which he explored in its entirety, traversing its plains, valleys, and high-mountain villages. He quickly gained international recognition, as in July 1966 the Camera magazine, published in Lucerne, Switzerland, dedicated a substantial 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, who considered Gianni Berengo Gardin a brother in photography, signed the volume on Latium for the Touring Club of Italy with him. The illustrious photographer Ferdinando Scianna declared in 2021, upon 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 way of relating to the world, the world he wanted to talk about and the way he wanted to do it... He had a political-cultural engagement more than a direct one... 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 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)

Book from my personal collection kept with the utmost care, in excellent overall condition with very light signs of use and wear from time, and wear to the cover and lamination on the back (see photo). Shipped protected with reinforced packaging and traceable international mail guaranteed. If there are multiple purchases, group shipping is possible with reimbursement of any excess postage paid via PayPal.

1.1 kg. excluding packaging