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VIVIAN MAIER 2026
Quiet, discreet, invisible. Vivian Maier traversed the second half of the 1900s observing the world through her unique lens, capable of capturing the most authentic essence of city life. A professional nanny working between New York City and Chicago, over the course of her life she built a huge photographic archive that remained hidden until a fortuitous discovery revealed her extraordinary talent to the world, establishing her as one of the most important street photographers of the 20th century.
BERT STERN 2025
Bert Stern (New York, 1929-2013) revolutionised fashion photography and captured the celebrities of his era with a unique visual language, capa- ble of combining glamour and emotional intensity. His iconic The Last Sit- ting with Marilyn Monroe is a timeless masterpiece that immortalises the diva’s fragile beauty. Stern turned every shot into a powerful story, leaving his mark on the history of contemporary photography.
This book is a journey through his most memorable pictures, where his creativity and refined taste meet in an unforgettable blend.
LESLIE KRIMS 2025
Born in 1942, the American photographer Leslie Krims is known for his ironic and edgy staged photographs. By adopting a style that combines theatricality, satire and social criticism, Krims challenged conventional documentary photography and dominant ideologies. This volume is a journey across the visionary landscape of an author whose staged images have acquired the status of political and aesthetic statements that make people think, while also provoking outrage and amusement.
Sandy Skoglund Enchanting Nature, McNay Art Museum, 2025
In collaboration with McNay Art Museum and Paci Contemporary Gallery. Text by Laura van Straaten. ‘Enchanting Nature’ is published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition presented at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, USA, from September 11 through February 1, 2026. The publication’s text and images expand on the breadth of Skoglund’s artistic practice as a sculptor, installation artist, and photographer. The clash of culture and nature is eternal, an ongoing struggle that characterizes some of humanity’s epic concerns. The conflict between the manmade world and the natural environment and the paradoxes this conflict creates are a central focus in the work of the artist. This dialogue exists behind a facade of lush color and form that defines Skoglund’s distinctive, dream-like images.
Martin Munkacsi, 2024
Volume curated by Paci contemporary Gallery and Howard Greenberg Gallery, published by Dario Cimorelli Editore. Introduction by Howard Greenberg, crytical texts by Andrea Tinterri e Kincses Karoly.
According to reviews of the time, “he is the greatest living photo reporter of the world,” “the greatest photographer of women in the world.” In his dynamic photographs people speed through modern life. He lived and photographed at a 20th century pace, he faced a rapidly changing world […]
MARIO CRAVO NETO : Destino
“Photography for me is a kind of oblation, an offering handed over to unknown powers. I don’t know if I am a mystic, but I am certain that something or someone takes us by the hand and directs us to a destination, unknown to us, in infinity. I will call it destiny.”
MIGUEL RIO BRANCO. Masculin Feminin 2022
The new volume focused on Miguel Rio Branco published by Silvana Editoriale, curated by the artist himself and by Walter Guadagnini, Director of CAMERA in Turin has been published. The volume contains an essay written by Prof. Germano Celant thanks to whom the gallery started to collaborate with Miguel Rio Branco some years ago.
SANDY SKOGLUND OUTTAKES
PHIL BORGES.Ritratti dal mondo 2021
The new catalog “PHIL BORGES” published by Silvana, with critical texts by the artist himself and an introduction by the Dalai Lama, a personal friend of Borges, is available at the gallery. The volume accompanies the exhibition dedicated to the American photographer, which will open at the Brescia gallery on Oct. 22, 2021 in the presence of the artist.
ERWIN OLAF, 2020
Douglas Kirkland, 2019
Sandy Skoglund WINTER, 2019
This monograph presents the first systematic and complete examination of the career of the American artist Sandy Skoglund, from her debut in the early 1970s until the present day. A leading member of the generation that developed the language of staged photography, Skoglund’s exploration is characterized by a dialectic between installation and photography…
AMERICA 70. La fotografia tra sogno e realtà, 2014
“Since the early ‘70s several American artists have rewritten the rules of photography and thrown themselves into bold experiments: their intent being no longer that of documenting reality, but of pushing themselves beyond it without denying it, tying up the knots that link together imagery and vision, visible and invisible.” More…
NANCY BURSON, Composites 2018
“Nancy Burson is a photographer who works with concepts and a conceptual artist who works with photographs. While it was not Burson’s intention, her fabrications challenged fundamental assumptions about the nature of photography and still do. Unlike a portrait that draws meaning from its connection to a real person, Burson’s pictures are simulacra; forms without substance that put a face on abstract concepts, personalizing the impersonal, and embodying the intangible.”
Ralph Gibson, SELF-EXPOSURE an unauthorized autobiography, Heni Publishing, 2018
Self Exposure is the unauthorized autobiograpy of celebrated American photographer Ralph Gibson. Writing in candid prose, Gibson gives a richly personal account of his life and work.
HORST P. HORST. A Legend of Style 2018
The name Horst P. Horst is synonymous with timeless elegance and sensual sophistication. A leading artist at Vogue magazine for six decades, he was an international figure able to chronicle the interwoven worlds of art, design, performance.
CLARK & POUGNAUD, C’est la Vie, 2009
“We call our pictures “vintage digital” or “slow art” because each picture is a slow process hand and home made. We produce approximately 12 portraits per year. Our images are a mix of influences: poetical realism esthatetic of the cinema, theatre scenography, painting, photography, digital technology… We take the models round make believe miniatures worlds to perform a slice of life in which atmospheres are essentials”. More…
BERNARD FAUCON, Le Temps des Mannequins, 2008
“La Mise en scene photographique is a small station on the ocean of time” More…
MAURIZIO GALIMBERTI, Mexico, 2016
“At Frida’s house… at Manuel’s house…At the house of the intriguing and never defined history of Mexico…with Tina Modotti in the heart… At the house of the light scented of an history that wraps you up”. More…
TEUN HOCKS 2016
“My inspiration can be almost everything, and almost nothing. Sometimes the world around me and how to survive daily life can be a source of inspiration. In my images I aim to achieve not so much, offering a mirror sometimes, or gaining a smile, and maybe a good feeling”.
TEUN HOCKS, Cosmic Surroundings 2011
“First, I start with almost an idea, or vague ones, making drawings of thoughts I have about all kind of situations that get e dreaming or just are triggering my imagination. After that I build and paint a setting, and check and control everything by making digital photos during building and compare them to my drawing…”More…
LIVING CODES. Miguel Chevalier, Alessandro Capozzo, Alex Dragulescu, 2011
An alien life form built starting from an imitation of the deep structures of reality and yet characterized by a radical alterity. More…
MICHAL MACKU, Glass Photo, 2010
“[…] It isn’t the answer the theme of his works, he’s not seeking for a truth. It’s the creation he’s seeking, as if he wants us to understand that the it’s not the destination being important, it’s the journey instead.” More…
MEI XIAN QIU, Lascia che mille fiori sboccino, 2013
“My work uses photography and its perceived approximation to reality as a truth telling device, stripping away notions of selves and selfhood in an increasingly globalized monoculture”. More…
MATTEO MONTANI, Abbassare al cielo gli occhi, Paci contemporary gallery, Brescia, 2009.
“There are signs from below and from above. It is the painting that has the function of interpreting them, changing their fate and bringing them back for us to see. It is the means to render us visionaries, of becoming participants in a magic aiming to become reality”. More…
LORI NIX, Another Wold, 2013
“The photographs I create do not reflect the tradition of the grand idyllic landscape. Rather than showing the beautiful or heroic vista, I look to the darker corners of life. I am interested in the forces of entropy, in the ruins left in the wake of human potency of grandeur” More…
LESLIE KRIMS, Nude America, 2008
Unprejudiced. Above all rules. Desecrating: creative deeply liberal. More…
ERIC RONDEPIERRE, Images Secondes, Loco, Parigi, 2015
Initially actor, Éric Rondepierre then turned through painting to a photographic work linked to cinema. Her artistic activity is focused on the dynamic relationships between these two practices. More…
SANDY SKOGLUND, Magic Time, 2008
“Imagination truthness in a path leading away from the chaos of events without history, unjustness and endless”. More…
SANDY SKOGLUND 2015
«I think there exist a contrast between the fantastic aspect – animals seen as cartoons or as fantasies – and reality. Since we, as human begin, consider ourselves the primary form of consciousness existing in nature, I decided to populate my images with animals in order to introduce this alternative awareness into our experience.»
MAGGIE TAYLOR, Imagination, 2010.
“Sometimes an image springs from a dream or a passing thought as I am working outside the garden. But since it takes many weeks for me to finish an image, many different days and dreams can get tangled up in one image”. More…
JERRY UELSMANN, Synchronistic Moments, 2011
“I believe that individual artists can create a reality that is personally more meaningful that the one that is literally given to the eye. I have never made an image that related to a specific dream and I do not keep any sort of journal of dreams. I greatly appreciate the quality of the dreamlike sensibility”. More….