Italian eyes. Italian fashion photographs from 1951 to today.

In recent years fashion photography has become the leading medium of contemporary visual culture: it has evolved from mere fashion supporter to creator of icons and ideas. Through photographs, fashion features in Italian and foreign magazines, and ad campaigns this volume aims to give an important inside view of Italian photography and its protagonists. Italian Eyes is not a dictionary of Italian fashion photography. This project would like to be a starting point, a first look into, an opportunity to reflect (even critically) upon a kind of photography that in Italy has never left the fashion circuit. In addition to the book's images there is a series of texts that, from different points of view, attempt to provide historical and critical tools for a preliminary analysis of a topic that is waiting to be explored and discussed. The volume also includes photographer biographies (a kind of book within a book) that piece together the life and career of each single artist.