Maraini: Acts of Photography, Acts of Love Book

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 The book includes several images from an unpublished body of photographs of southern Italy made shortly after World War II.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 includes four essays in three languages (English, Italian and Japanese) and over 100 black and white and color images. Rather than grouping the images by location or time, they have been intermixed. This not only reflects Maraini's eye, but also his vision of the world where spiritual, human and topographical qualities exist in only one true compartment-the world itself.Read More