Edgardo Baldi - Microcosmo. Cento tavole di vita invisibile - 1939

In dialogue with similar European researches: Karl Blossfeldt with 'Unformen der Kunst' and Laure Albin-Guillot's 'Micrographie décorative,' cited by the epigraph of the book by Edgardo Baldi, these images represent an original photographic vision within Italian culture, revitalized from pictorialist or propagandistic styles, so much so that they were included in the 1943 volume 'Prima rassegna dell'attività fotografica in Italia,' a summary of the new Italian photography. Each photograph is ironically commented on by the scientist-photographer Edgardo Baldi (1899-1951), director of the Italian Institute of Hydrobiology in Pallanza.
Edgardo Baldi. Microcosm. One Hundred Plates of Invisible Life. Hoepli, 1939. 32x25 cm. 216 pages. One hundred photographs in black and white and one in color. Very good condition, some signs on the dust jacket.
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