Giorgio Grillo's Book Explores Italian Photographic Books 1931-1941

Giorgio Grillo's "Il libro fotografico italiano: 1931-1941" examines a brief but significant period in Italian photography, covering experimentation, industry, and propaganda. The book highlights publications such as "Belvedere dell’Architettura Italiana d’oggi" edited by Pier Maria Bardi, who later moved to São Paulo with his architect wife Lina Bo. It also features "Campo grafico," a notable 20th-century Italian magazine, and "Come si fotografa oggi" (1935) by Hoepli with a preface by Marziano Bernardi. Orio Vergani, a journalist for Corriere della Sera, documented Italian East Africa in the late 1930s. The volume concludes with Alberto Lattuada's "Occhio quadrato" (1941), published by Corrente Edizioni, whose animator was Ernesto Treccani, son of Giovanni Treccani degli Alfieri. Grillo's work uses these books to narrate decisive pages of Italian photography, industry, and politics during a crucial decade.