Five New Photography Books Explore Memory, Identity, and Transformation

A roundup of five photography books published in 2024-2025 delves into themes of friendship, existential search, social chronicles, silent reflections, and documentation. 'Vita di Alighiero Boetti' by Giorgio Colombo, published by Forma and TornabuoniArt, features a preface by Michele Casamonti and texts by Agata Boetti, chronicling the long friendship between Colombo and artist Alighiero Boetti. 'Col tempo, 1956–2024' by Guido Guidi, published by Mack (432 pages, €130), spans nearly seventy years of photography, includes temperas from the 1970s, and accompanies an exhibition at MAXXI in Rome. Texts by Francesco Stocchi, Antonello Frongia, Pippo Ciorra, Simona Antonacci, Frits Gierstberg, Florian Ebner, and Alessandro Coco. 'Covando un mondo nuovo' by Paola Agosti and Benedetta Tobagi (Einaudi, 152 pages, €35) documents the feminist movement in 1970s Rome. 'Canto delle stagioni' by Giorgio Cutini (Ephemeria, 192 pages, €35) is a trilogy on unease, solitude, and silence, edited by Francesco Trentini and Cutini. 'Monumento' by Edoardo Tresoldi, Carlotta Franco, and Jacopo Valentini (Bruno, 160 pages, €20) documents a 2022 commission by Generali at Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco, Venice, restored by David Chipperfield Architects and now open to the public as the Fondazione The Human Safety Net.