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Massimo Vitali

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Massimo Vitali: Entering a New World
Massimo Vitali: Entering a New World
STEIDL

The latest from Massimo Vitali, master portraitist of the beach and the disco

Clth, 14.25 x 11.5 in. / 208 pgs / 115 color. | 2/11/2020 | Out of stock
$125.00



Massimo Vitali: Landscape with Figures, 2nd Edition Revised
STEIDL

Clth, 14.75 x 11.75 in. / 211 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 2/15/2011 | Not available
$98.00



Massimo Vitali: Short Stories
STEIDL

Slip, clth, 14.25 x 11.25 in. / 48 pgs / 12 color. | 8/20/2019 | Not available
$145.00



Massimo Vitali: Entering a New WorldMassimo Vitali: Entering a New World

Photographs 2009–2018

Published by Steidl.

This large-format volume, collecting images from 2009 to 2018, is the latest in Steidl’s series publishing the life’s work of Massimo Vitali. Following the first two volumes, published together as Landscape with Figures / Natural Habitats, 1994–2009 in 2011 (and now out of print), Entering a New World presents Vitali’s large-scale color images of humans interacting en masse—both consciously and unconsciously—with their environments.

Whether relaxing beachside, exploring the ruins of the Roman Forum or navigating a crowded shopping promenade, the scenes in these photographs are topographical celebrations and subtle critiques of our changing habits of leisure. The book furthermore traces an important shift in Vitali’s practice: his move from large-format film to medium-format digital.

Born in Como in 1944, Massimo Vitali studied photography at the London College of Printing. Beginning in the 1960s, Vitali worked as a photojournalist, collaborating with magazines and agencies throughout Europe before turning to cinematography for television and cinema in the early 1980s. He eventually returned to still photography as an artist, taking up large-format photography in 1993 and beginning his famous Beach Series in 1995. Steidl has published Vitali’s Landscape with Figures (2004) and Landscape with Figures / Natural Habitats, 1994–2009 (2011).



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Steidl

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Clth, 14.25 x 11.5 in. / 208 pgs / 115 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 80   

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ISBN 9783958296268 TRADE
List Price: $125.00 CDN $170.00

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Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

Massimo Vitali: Short StoriesMassimo Vitali: Short Stories

Published by Steidl.

After nearly 30 years working in large-format photography, Massimo Vitali (born 1944), famed for his images of beaches and discos, brings together his 12 "best" photographs in a beautiful volume. Vitali began his career as a photojournalist in the 1960s, collaborating with magazines and agencies throughout Europe, before turning to cinematography for television and cinema in the early '80s. He eventually returned to still photography as an artist, taking up large-format photography in 1993 and beginning his famous Beach Series in 1995.

The selection of just 12 works gathered for this volume was made following many lengthy conversations with collaborators and curators who know his work deeply. These works are not necessarily his best-known pieces; rather each one speaks to a particular moment of his artistic research, like short stories of a long career.



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Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Slip, clth, 14.25 x 11.25 in. / 48 pgs / 12 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 126   

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ISBN 9783958294967 TRADE
List Price: $145.00 CDN $195.00

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STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

Massimo Vitali: Landscape with Figures, 2nd Edition RevisedMassimo Vitali: Landscape with Figures, 2nd Edition Revised

Published by Steidl.

In the first edition of Landscape with Figures (2004), Massimo Vitali showed his entire oeuvre of the 1990s, broadening the scope of his survey of beaches and discos to include skiing resorts and swimming pools from across the globe. Since 2007 Vitali has modified his perspective, shifting between an architectural background and a bizarre and fantastic mise-en-scčne inspired by Romantic landscape painting. The book--composed of 70 photographs from 2004 to 2009--also includes a "genealogical tree" of his photographs--120 thumbnails images which make visual connections by color, composition and time.

PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 14.75 x 11.75 in. / 211 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: FALL 2014

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ISBN 9783869301976 TRADE
List Price: $98.00 CDN $120.00

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Not available

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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