Signed; Pepi Merisio - Civilta' Rurale - 1987

Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Pepi Merisio (1931 – 2021), unavailable online as a signed copy. 204 pages and 203 photographs, mostly in color, printed mostly full-page or for some double-page spreads with detailed captions, Italian texts by Arcangelo Lobianco and Giuseppe Frangi, brown-colored cloth binding with the title embossed in white on the front cover and spine and an illustrated dust jacket on the cover and back. In excellent condition, practically like new forty years after its publication.

Pepi Merisio photographed for this book the finest examples of rural architecture present in Italy. Pepi Merisio, an independent photographer, spent almost his entire life in the territory of Bergamo, which he explored in all its extent, traversing all its plains and valleys as well as high-mountain villages. He quickly earned significant international recognition, since in July 1966 the Camera magazine published in Lucerne, Switzerland in French, a substantial feature on him. While director of the Camera magazine, Roméo Martinez introduced him into the Les Grands photographes collection, and Pepi Merisio signed, with Gianni Berengo Gardin whom he regarded as a brother in photography, the volume on Latium for the Touring Club of Italy.

The illustrious photographer Ferdinando Scianna declared in 2021, upon Pepi Mérisio’s death: “I met Pepi in 1967 when I had just arrived from Sicily, and he already had considerable international prestige.” “He had just won an international prize with the report on Uncle Angelo’s death; many people gathered around him, and I had great admiration... He had chosen his visual relationship to the world, the world he wanted to talk about and the way he wanted to do it... He possessed a political-cultural commitment 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 indeed going anywhere.” (https://bergamo.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/21_febbraio_04/ferdinando-sciannalui-ci-fa-capire-dove-veniamo-19b7d422-66bc-11eb-8ada-57b39586265a.shtml)

A book from my personal collection, kept with the greatest care, in excellent overall condition with very light signs of wear from use and time on the cover and the gloss lamination on the back (see photo). Shipped protected with reinforced packaging and international tracking. For multiple purchases, a group shipment is possible with refund of excess postage paid via PayPal.

1,750 excluding packaging