Signed Uliano Lucas - Cinque anni a Milano - 1973

Exceptional copy with a signed title page by Uliano Lucas (born in 1942), found nowhere else signed on the internet. This book by Uliano Lucas is listed in Photobook, vol III, page 62. It contains 210 pages and 350 black and white photographs, with texts in Italian by Franco Ramella and Ermanno Rea. The cover is illustrated and softbound.

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Uliano Lucas's book recounts five years of political activism in Milan, a broad coalition of students, workers, unions, and other left-wing sympathizers who undertook various actions during the 1970s to prevent the return of fascism. It discusses protests and activist activities, as well as the often violent repression by police. But it also speaks of deaths. Indeed, we are in the heart of the Years of Lead (named after the bullets fired). One of the most striking images in the book is that of a person’s death caused by the explosion of a bomb triggered by fascists. However, they were not the only ones to resort to terrorist actions. 'Cinque anni a Milano' is one of the protest books that depict a conflict while also serving as a manifesto.

Uliano Lucas, born in Milan, is a renowned Italian photojournalist known for his reports produced over decades for major Italian newspapers and magazines. He documented, through numerous articles, social issues such as 'the realities and contradictions of his time,' youth movements, street protests, immigration, industrialization, and the resulting territorial devastation, as well as certain detention centers and psychiatric hospitals, before, during, and after 1968. His reports on armed conflicts and struggles for democracy and freedom are also famous, from Portugal under António de Oliveira Salazar's dictatorship to liberation wars in Africa, notably in Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, and Angola, from Jordan during Black September to the bloody wars in Yugoslavia, with reports on the cities of Mostar in 1992 and Sarajevo in 1993. Many of his most important reports are included in his approximately 70 photographic books, another feature that makes Uliano Lucas one of the few Italian photojournalists with such a prolific output. 'Uliano Lucas [...] can be considered one of Italy’s first independent photojournalists. Over the years, he has become a symbol of a rigorous and committed photographic style, which views journalism and photojournalism as instruments of democracy.' (according to wikipedia.it)

Copy in very good condition, with very slight wear on the edges of the pages. A book from my personal collection, kept with the utmost care. Shipping is protected with reinforced packaging and guaranteed international postal tracking. For multiple purchases, there is the possibility of combined shipping with a refund of any excess postal fees paid via Paypal.

0.750 kg. excluding packaging