Title: Roma 1968
Photographer(s): Mario Cresci
Writer(s): Francesca Bonetti, Nicoletta Leonardi, Roberto Maggiori
Designer(s): Gazmend Zeneli
Publisher(s): Editrice Quinlan, San Severino Marche,Macerata, Italy
Year: 2023
Print run: 92 copies, 73 numbered and 19 special edition with japanese binding plus a leporello numbered and signed by the author
Language(s): Italian
Pages: 138
Size: 22 x 30 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Graphic Line Faenza, Italy
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Italy, 1968
ISBN: 9788899390587
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The images that Cresci uses in this book, dedicated to the Roman works of 1968, are experimental images, made from unintentional over-impressions on 35 mm film, or from "poor", heliographic prints, derived from a self-positing photographic matrix applied to the pages of the weekly magazine l'Espresso and, finally, from the frames of a 16 mm. video shot by a friend during the clashes in Valle Giulia, projected with an enlarger on photosensitive paper. The graphic sign of these images is unconventional, clearly breaking with the tradition of the genres and instruments used for communication purposes, a transgressive sign perfectly inscribed in the cultural climate of 1968 to which Cresci adheres with participation and political militancy, deliberately omitting reportage to highlight instead the metalinguistic mediation underlying each message.
By Roberto Maggiori introduction