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

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Edgardo Baldi's Microcosmo. Cento tavole di vita invisibile, Hoepli, 1939, first Italian edition, hardcover, 216 pages, 32 x 25 cm, in very good condition.

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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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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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Details

Number of Books
1
Subject
Photography
Book Title
Microcosmo. Cento tavole di vita invisibile
Author/ Illustrator
Edgardo Baldi
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1939
Height
320 mm
Edition
1st Edition
Width
245 mm
Language
Italian
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Hoepli
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Number of pages
216
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