Contrasto

Rome, Italy · since 1994

Contrasto is a photographic agency that also publishes. Its own tagline is “Projects for photography”, and besides the books it keeps archives, represents photographers and produces images for the press, fashion and corporate clients. Roberto Koch has led it since 1986 and founded the publishing house in the 1990s, so the list reads like an agency's: Italian reportage and international masters share the shelf, and the format is generous, with about six books in ten in hardcover. Where many photobook publishers follow one editor's taste, Contrasto follows a network of authors, so the list is best read as a survey of author photography as the agency has seen it, not as a single editorial line.

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363, years 1999 – 2026
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contrastobooks.com/13-catalogo

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