David Goldblatt. Fotografie

Richard Pankhurst, Denis Gérard
Kegan Paul International

Following the very successful Ethiopia Engraved, an illustrated book of engravings by foreign travellers from 1681 to 1900, Ethiopia Photographed covers the period from the inception of photography in the country up to the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings and rulers of Ethiopia - such as Emperor Melenik, Lej Iyasu and Emperor Haile Selassie - make it a highly photogenic country, as this lavishly illustrated book reveals.

Situated in lofty, often inaccessible mountains between the Red Sea and the Blue Nile, and extending far into the Horn of Africa, it is a complex and mysterious country which as always exercised an extraordinary fascination for the outside world. The book begins with an introduction which gives a brief history of Ethiopia in this period, and describes the role of photography at this time. The richly captured images of Ethiopia Photographed bear witness to many personalities and places not previously seen and, in many cases, now lost for all time but for the photogenic memories recorded here.

Roberto Dotti, Paolo Floretta
Gruppo editoriale Il Saggiatore

Dan Holdsworth, Oliver Morton
Steidl/Brancolini Grimaldi

Occupying a space between the documentary and the make-believe, Dan Holdsworth's photographs transform Icelandic glaciers into a strange and futuristic landscape. In Blackout the landscape is present only as a brooding, eerie image of itself: the blue of the sky has become the deep black of space, while the earth appears in pale negative. This lunarlike terrain humbles the viewer before a foreign, awe-inspiring nature and repositions the notion of the romantic sublime.

Fernanda Pivano
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Fernanda Pivano è stata protagonista e testimone dei più interessanti fermenti letterari del secondo Novecento, amica, ambasciatrice e complice di autori ormai leggendari. E per questo che guardare questo album privato è un po' come veder scorrere le immagini, e anche sentire gli odori, gli schiamazzi e le pulsazioni, della cultura americana e italiana degli ultimi cinquant'anni. Ci sono la foto di classe con Primo Levi o quelle in salotto con Quasimodo, Montale e Vittorini. Ci sono tante lettere che cominciano con "Dear Nanda..." e in fondo hanno la firma di Hemingway, di Kerouac o di Ginsberg. Ci sono i bigliettini di Bukowski e le dediche di Henry Miller, i ritratti di lei fatti da Gregory Corso e i disegni di Ferlinghetti.

Gianni Berengo Gardin
Gianni Berengo Gardin

Piero Becchetti, Carlo Pietrangeli
Edizioni Quasar

Giulio Confalonieri
s.e.

Angelo Mereu
Edizioni L'Agrifoglio

Christian Wolsdorff
Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung

Circolo Filologico Milanese
s.e.

Manuel Sendón, Xosé Luis Suárez Canal
Centro de Estudos Fotográficos

Franco Martelli Rossi
Campanotto Editore