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1999 SIGNED Hardcover. 168 pages of the artist's Photography; Multilingual text; Illustrated paper-covered boards; Cloth spine has scuffed mark; Very Good overall; No Marking/highlighting inside; Nice clean copy (See Photos)
Maraini: Acts of Photography, Acts of Love is an extraordinary selection of the photography of Fosco Maraini in a beautifully printed, multi-language, oversized hardcover edition. Maraini's career as an ethnologist, photographer, filmmaker, mountaineer, writer and professor spans a period of more than sixty years. Perhaps best known for his work on Tibet and Japan, Maraini has extensively photographed the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain ranges of central Asia, Southeast Asia and the south of his native Italy. His work on Tibet and on the Ainu people of Northern Japan is perhaps the most important historical documentation of two lost cultures. The book includes several images from an unpublished body of photographs of southern Italy made shortly after World War II. Maraini…
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