
Gabriele Basilico. Photo Books 1978-2005
- Publisher
- Edizioni Corraini
- Year
- 2006
- ISBN
- 9788875700430
- Specifications
- paperback
260 pages
catalogues all of Basilico's own photobooks published between 1978 and 2006, each shown with its original cover, bibliographic data and an interior spread
published for the exhibition at Art Book Milano and BOX Corraini, March 2006
Texts by Italo Rota and Gabriele Basilico
Translated by Isobel Butters
Graphic design by Carmi e Ubertis, Milano / Elio Carmi
Italian / English (artist's statement bilingual, remaining texts Italian)
An unusual pocket anthology: rather than a book of Basilico's photographs, this is a book about his books, cataloguing every photobook he had published up to that point, each reproduced with its original cover, bibliographic details and a sample interior spread. Basilico credits the eccentric idea of exhibiting all of one's own books to an old suggestion from architect Stefano Boeri, brought to life through a Milan bookshop and a small independent publisher. The result doubles as both an exhibition catalogue and the closest thing to a complete illustrated bibliography of the first decades of his publishing career.