Signed Nino Migliori - Anni Cinquanta - 1999

Signed copy on the title page by Nino Migliori (born in 1926), 96 pages and 66 black-and-white photographs printed mostly full page, text in Italian and English by Attilio Colombo. Softcover binding with wide flaps, illustrated on the cover. In excellent condition, practically like new.

Nino Migliori (born in 1926) began taking photographs in 1948 as a self-taught photographer and quickly became part of the same photographic circle as Mario Giacomelli, Piergiorgio Branzi and a few others, the Misa itself arising from the group La Bussola driven by Giuseppe Cavalli.

A leading figure of the Neorealist school of photography, Migliori produced a rich and meaningful body of work in postwar Italy. “We had just barely emerged from the war and I felt the need to capture life, reality, by fixing moments of everyday life that today seem banal to us but which at the time had strong significance, undoubtedly linked to the sense of freedom and the possibility of choosing,” he recalled, while he had to hide in cellars in the final years of World War II to avoid recruitment by fascist militias.

Some of his most intriguing photographs were conceived as sequences. Migliori’s photographs also include extraordinary urban landscapes offering a bird’s-eye view of Bologna. These images do not carry precise titles but generic ones like “people of the North,” “people of Emilia,” “people of the South,” “people of the Po Delta.” Some of his most intriguing photographs were designed as sequences presenting a complete narrative, such as “ragazzi della via” (Boys of the Street) 1955, where a gang of six boys engaged in a mock battle, armed with sticks, sped through the frame. This return to the 1950s marks the first step in Nino Migliori’s photographic journey, which he would continue afterward with various creative experiments with Polaroid in particular.

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0.6 kg excluding packaging