Mario Cresci's 'Roma 1968' Artist Book Released in Limited Edition

Quinlan has published 'Mario Cresci. Roma 1968', an artist book limited to 92 copies, 19 of which are special editions with Japanese binding and a signed leporello. The volume captures a specific moment in the research of Mario Cresci (born 1942 in Chiavari), active in photography since the 1960s. His work spans linguistics, conceptual art, anthropology, urbanism, politics, and landscape. The introductory text by Roberto Maggiori first appeared in 'il manifesto' over a decade ago. The images date from 1968, when Cresci was 26, and are experimental: involuntary double exposures on 35mm film, heliographic prints from photographic matrices, autopositive prints applied to pages of 'L'Espresso', and frames from 16mm footage by a friend. In 1968, Cresci unrolled a 12-meter-long photographic print in Rome depicting the Belice earthquake in Sicily, highlighting political inefficiency. The book's images propose an alternative mode of information, distinct from photoreportage, and foreshadow his later research in the 1970s and beyond. Cresci defies easy categorization, using language flexibly beyond genre constraints. The book is 138 pages, priced €37, ISBN 9788899390587.