2026
““Gulliver – Seeking the perfect World””
Language Italian/English
Presented in Lucca on April 9, 2026, on the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition of the same name at the Palazzo Ducale.
Joined the prestigious university libraries of:
Lucca – IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca in June 2026
Pisa – University Library – Scuola Normale Superiore in June 2026
200 pages, 97 photographs, ft. 24.5 x 31 cm, hardcover with dust jacket. High-quality two-tone printing for B&W.
A journey where images and text merge for an immersive narrative experience that uses the visual power of black and white photography to tell stories, explore places, social dynamics, and perhaps express concepts, integrating them with short texts such as captions and quotes from writers, poets, artists, and scientists whose words have helped make the world a better place.
Lucca – university libraries – IMT School of Advanced Studies
Pisa – University Library – Scuola Normale Superiore
A must-have for any photographer’s library, offered at an incredible price for the content it offers.
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2024
Presentation of the Photographic Volume:
Wednesday 4 September 2024 at 5.30 pm
Lucca – Vincenzo Da Massa Carrara Conference Room
San Micheletto Complex – Via San Micheletto 3
The following will speak at the book presentation:
. Dantès (Dante Luci) – Author
. Raffaele Domenici – Vice President of the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca Foundation
. Paolo Bolpagni – Director of the Ragghianti Lucca Foundation
. Enrico Stefanelli – Artistic Director of PhotoLux
. Angelo Frati – Director of the Chestnut Museum Colognora di Pescaglia
Coming soon to bookstores
Available only in Italian
The volume “Vissi d’Arte”
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208 pages 130 photographs 24.5×31 cm – High quality print in two-tone for B&W
2023
L’Occhio del Tempo
The province of Lucca as you’ve never seen it before! Nature regaining possession of lost spaces: old houses, small churches, buildings once used for productive activities covered with plants, leaves, grass, moss. A sort of re-naturalization of otherwise precluded spaces. Places considered useless and fruitless by man are a heritage that nature is able to recycle, we could even say to regenerate: where man abandons, nature gives new life, even if at a superficial glance it may not appear so. The salvation of the world is in the wilderness, says the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who teaches us to live in places and not just to occupy them. As it covers stones with ivy, for Hugo, nature pours out love for men, it is their source of life. Reason to protect it more and more, instead of defacing and scarring it. The photographs of Dantès, taken in various places in the Province of Lucca, particular, original, suggestive, the result of a long and passionate research work, in addition to being appreciated for the artistic aspect, also represent a message of hope for the future with their invitation to observe the environment, love it and take care of it.
