VERY SOUGHT-AFTER PHOTOBOOK TITLE - in the BRILLIANT DESIGN by Sybren Kuiper. Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook volume 3, page 136. Signed by Valerio Spada. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. For Alec Soth one of the best photo books in 2011: "Another excellent crime book, this one a mashup of documentary portraiture and a Neapolitan police report." PLEASE ENJOY the newest edition of the more and more popular ONE-SELLER-PHOTOBOOK auctions by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com/Cologne/Germany) on "Catawiki". Strongly limited to 750 copies only (here number: 152/750). All books numbered, but usually NOT SIGNED. Excellent fresh condition. It’s Christmas soon, so a great opportunity to purchase your gift - for others or for yourself. I selected for you more than 100 highly attractive LOTS from MY PERSONAL COLLECTION and from my newest purchases. Winner of lots of prizes. Photography Book Now 2011 Grand Prize Winner. "Gomorrah Girl by Valerio Spada, this is a book that I can really learn something from." Jim Goldberg, Magnum Photos "Spada’s book – self-published, stapled together, a brilliant combination of the roughhewn with the exquisite – is a memorial for a dead girl, a cri de coeur for vulnerable young women and a penetrating examination of the social ills resulting from a corrupt and rotten political system." - Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume 3 - IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Cross Editions. 2011. First edition, second printing. The second printing published with same size, content and layout straight after the quickly out-of-print first printing which had a print-run of 500 copies only. Color offset, custom side-stapled red. 225 x 335 mm. 80 pages. Original design by Sybren Kuiper. Format change and central quad fold poster design by Valerio Spada. Text in English. Condition: Book very fresh (protected by the original plastic foil from the publisher) and clean with no marks and with no foxing; only very light trace of use. Plastic foil with missing part. Overall very fine condition. Great photobook in great condition - signed by the artist (on the original plastic foil of the publisher, like Valerio Spada usuallly prefers). 'Gomorrah Girl' and 'I am nothing' are the main series produced by the young photographer Valerio Spada. Thanks to the first series, he made himself known throughout the world in 2011, while he has recently brought the second to a close thanks to the support of a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation in New York. Both revolve around the study of the most typical and yet obscure aspects of the major Italian criminal organizations: the Neapolitan Camorra and the Sicilian Mafia. And yet these are not mere reportages, but combine truth and storytelling, diary and theatre, both candid and staged photography. They are cinematographic fiction raised to the level of judiciary truth. And vice versa." - Francesco Zanot, Curator - (on Valerio Spada's solo exhibition at Camera, Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, opening November 2016) “At first glance, Gomorrah Girl may seem to be an unassuming even haphazard book, but as each page unfolds, the viewer is challenged by layers of meaning.”“This is a moving book of photographs and documents that one wants to return to repeatedly,” says Himes, (Head of International Photographs at Christie’s), describing what made the book a winner." - Darius Himes, Christie’s International Photographs, TIME Magazine Lightbox -