Milano

Carlo Orsi & Giulia Pirelli
Milano
Photographs: Carlo Orsi & Giulia Pirelli
Text: Dino Buzzati
Publisher: Bruno Alfieri Editore
106 pages
Pictures: 54
Year: 1965
Price: 1000 €
Comments: Hardcover with black cloth spine, 40 x 30.5 cm. First edition, gravure printing, text in Italian with an introduction by Dino Buzzati. Design by Giancarlo Ilprandi, printed on metallic paper, giving a unique shine to the images. In excellent condition, well preserved in a printer's box. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol. 1. A collectible and scarce italian photobook.
The dramatic shift away from the somewhat grim 1950s neo-realism seen in the other (equally scarce) Milan book, by Mario Carrieri, currently on offer offers an object lesson in shifting period style. Though published only six years after Carrieri's monograph, Pirelli and Orsi present a slick, cosmopolitan city on the move, contrasting sharply with the former's lingering sense of post-war dread and deprivation. "In only a few years the angst of the 1950s had been replaced by the buoyancy of the 60s," Parr and Badger write, "though some might say that art suffered as a result. Nevertheless, this is a vibrant, energetic, sharp and covetable book, and if style tends to win out over substance, that was the 60s, that was." (Eric Miles/photoeye)
















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