An edition of Un paese (1955)

Un paese

portrait of an Italian village

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An edition of Un paese (1955)

Un paese

portrait of an Italian village

1st ed.
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In 1953 the renowned American photographer Paul Strand, who was then living in France, suggested to Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini that they do a book together about a small town in Italy, a town that would reveal the spirit of a people. Strand asked Zavattini to choose a village with the elusive "special quality" he sought. Zavattini knew just such a village: his own birthplace of Luzzara, in the Po Valley. The collaboration of these two remarkable artists resulted in the classic book Un Paese.

Published in Italian in 1955, and now available for the first time in the English language, Un Paese captures in photographs and in spoken testimony the essential experience of daily life in Luzzara. It presents a series of intense portraits, graceful landscapes, and images of everyday objects. Paul Strand's photographs are carefully distilled, deeply powerful; they contain the flavors and the rhythms of an entire culture crystallized in a single village.

Zavattini successfully synthesizes text and image, aligning with the new cinematic trend of the day, a movement known as Italian neorealism. Their Luzzara is an ordinary village, neither overly picturesque nor greatly unusual, yet it is a town sustained by a grounded humanity and a profound love for the land by its people.

Publish Date
Publisher
Aperture
Language
English
Pages
104

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Cover of: Un Paese
Un Paese: Portrait of an Italian Village
May 31, 1997, Aperture
Hardcover in English - 1st ed edition
Cover of: Un paese
Un paese: portrait of an Italian village
1997, Aperture
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Un paese
Un paese
1974, All'insegna del pesce d'oro
in Italian
Cover of: Un paese
Un paese
1955, Giulio Einaudi
in Italian

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Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
945.4
Library of Congress
DG975.L95 Z3813 1997, DG975.L95Z3813 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
104 p. :
Number of pages
104

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1020985M
ISBN 10
0893817007
LCCN
96080073
OCLC/WorldCat
36957902
Library Thing
1101045
Goodreads
2260172

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