Publisher/Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri

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This is a collection of works by Franco Fontana (1933–), one of Italy's leading photographers. He is one of the pioneers who opened up new possibilities for color expression in Italian photography from the 1970s onward, establishing a unique style that transforms landscapes not merely as records, but into images reminiscent of abstract paintings through vivid colors, horizons, light and shadow, and geometric compositions. In Italy at the time, Luigi Ghirri and Guido Guidi were also reinterpreting everyday life and landscapes in different ways, and Fontana is also positioned as an important figure who revitalized landscape expression in post-war Italian photography. This book is one of the "I Grandi Fotografi" series of photographer monographs published by Fabbri Editori in 1983. It provides an overview of works from a period when Fontana's unique visual language had matured, having already published representative works such as "Sky-line," "Paesaggio urbano," and "Presenza-Assenza." What's even more noteworthy is that the book includes text by Achille Bonito Oliva, a critic known as a proponent of transavanguardia in Italian contemporary art. This book allows readers to connect Fontana's expression, which transcends the boundaries of photography and reconstructs reality through color and form, to contemporary art of the time.