Title: Immagini del NO
Photographer(s): Paola Mattioli, Anna Candiani
Writer(s): Arturo Carlo Quintavalle
Designer(s):
Publisher(s): All'Insegna del Pesce d'oro, Milano, Italy
Year: 1974
Print run: 1000
Language(s): Italian
Pages: 126
Size: 7,5 x 9,5 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition: 2nd, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2010 (included in Protest box)
Print: Printed in Milano, Italy
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Italy, 1974
ISBN:
The images depict moments of protest and demonstrations in Milan linked to political and feminist battles in which, in many cases, 'No' is written. Initially considered as the documentation of a particular moment of political struggle in Italy, coinciding with an epochal change of the country from peasant to industrial and consumerist (C. A. Quintavalle), it has subsequently been reinterpreted, thanks to the intervention of Parr and Badger ('The photo book: A history'. Vol III, 2004) who saw, in the reiteration of the word No, a conceptual work, substantially centered on the disruptiveness of the written word in the landscape: '.a real urban utopia of creation of community spaces in working-class neighbourhoods'. The extraordinarily iconic effect of the cover is also a contributing factor, constructed by superimposing sheets of paper and posters bearing the word No, so as to create a photomontage-landscape.