Thanks to its dual aesthetic and advertising value, for over sixty years the cover of the album has been one of the most effective tools for disseminating photographic experiments, sometimes very radical, to a very wide and highly heterogeneous audience from a geographical and social point of view.
Through a selection of one hundred and forty images, the volume offers for the first time an extensive survey of the covers made, from the 1950s to today, by internationally recognized photographers, including Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Luigi Ghirri, William Klein , David La Chapelle, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Pierre & Gilles, W.E. Smith.
Raffaella Perna
(Rome, 1982) She teaches History of Contemporary Art at the University of Rome La Sapienza. She is the author of the books: Piero Manzoni e Roma (2017), Pablo Echaurren, il movimento del ‘77 e gli indiani metropolitani (2016), Arte, fotografia e femminismo in Italia negli anni Settanta (2013), Wilhelm von Gloeden (2013), In forma di fotografia. Ricerca artistiche in Italia dal 1960 al 1970 (2009). She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions, including:The Unexpected Subject 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy (Frigoriferi Milanesi, 2019), L’altro sguardo. Fotografe italiane 1965-2018 (Triennale di Milano e Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma), Ketty La Rocca 80 (XVII Biennale Donna, Ferrara 2018, con F. Gallo), Grandi fotografi a 33 giri and Synchronicity. Record Covers by Artists (Auditorium Parco della Musica, 2010 e 2012). Among the books she has edited: Le polaroid di Moro (con S. Bianchi), Il gesto femminista (con I. Bussoni), Per un museo della fotografia a Roma (con I. Schiaffini) ed Etica e fotografia. Potere, ideologia e violenza dell’immagine fotografica (con I. Schiaffini). She is the director of the editorial series Quaderni della Fondazione Echaurren Salaris (Postmedia Books), within which she has overseen the re-edition of the book I viaggi di Brek di Gastone Novelli. She collaborates with Flash Art and is part of the FAF research center (Photography, art, feminism). Fondazione Quadriennale di Roma has entrusted her with the task of coordinating the University Network project, dedicated to promoting exchanges between the institution and universities.
Luciano Zuccaccia
Un mondo di libri
Manuela De Leonardis
A tu per tu fotografi a confronto
Pino Ninfa
Racconti jazz
Diego Mormorio
Catturare il tempo
Gruppo Polaroiders
Impossible time
Sandro Becchetti
L'inganno del vero
Annarita Curcio
Il dragone d'acciaio
Dario Coletti
Il fotografo e lo sciamano
AA.VV.
Contact sheets
Luciano Viti
Rock in camera
AA.VV.