“For the work I do I preferred black and white for a simple reason, that I never had the means to set up a colour darkroom… with colour you could make very chic things, monochrome, very beautiful… using the poorest possible colours.” Ugo Mulas's words open this volume devoted to the scene of art: the artists, the studios, the openings and the Venice Biennales that Mulas photographed from the late 1950s onwards, building the visual memory of a whole season of Italian and international art.