An idea, born a bit by chance, becomes a photographic project, with curious and interesting anthropological implications: a kind of ‘monogamy’ – the one with one’s l car – that some owners carry on for decades, growing old together with the mechanical vehicle, which is thus, little by little, almost assuming a soul.
Photography
Looking Good EN
€ 38,00The book is available for pre-order and will ship from July 2026.
Looking Good is a compendium of Charles Traub’s photographs on the nature of wandering and the gaze itself, a central preoccupation of his art.
It brings together images from the mid-1970s to the present. As George Sand wrote, “the secret of the study of life lies in learning to use one’s eyes,” and Traub has pursued this study through more than fifty years of photography. People watch each other, watch Traub, stare into the void, wander in search of something to catch their attention. These are mostly candid photographs that capture the nuance of the fact that we are always in the act of observing.
What you discover, looking the way Traub does, is that in some sense we are all performers, aware or unaware, putting on different faces in the moment we are seen and see others. “The content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash, it is enormously momentary.” (Willem de Kooning)
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Photographs
Charles H. TraubText
Natasha A. ChukEditing
Yan JinBook design
Bunker21 × 28 cm
120 pages
Hardcover
EnglishIsbn 978-88-98030-94-1
Available from July 2026
Automotive Monogamy IT/EN
€ 35,00The search for subjects is done mainly in two ways: the author leaves small messages on every old car he sees around town; he also occasionally stops people driving these veterans. He also tells everyone he knows about the project, asking them to investigate in their families and, in turn, to spread the word among relatives and friends.
Then the meeting takes place, to immortalize the passage of time in this particular symbiosis, actually, between man and car: in the time lapse between ‘yesterday and today,’ in fact, the adventures and memories of an entire existence are interwoven.
Automotive Monogamy – aimed at lovers of photography and the human spirit – collects in these 96 pages and 70 photos the stories of the people behind each car, telling both visually – thanks to his shots collected in Italy, Argentina and the United Kingdom – and through the short texts that accompany them, their singular and often ‘epic’ stories.
Texts and photographs
Matteo FerrariTexts
Michele Lupi
Yorgo TloupasBook design
Bunker21 × 28 cm
96 pages
Hardback
Italian/EnglishIsbn 978-88-98030-92-7
First edition November 2025
Vida detenida IT/EN
€ 29,00Vida detenida brings together a series of photographs taken by Pedro Almodóvar in a domestic, intimate space, during moments of solitude and contemplation.
Away from the film set, Almodóvar shoots to perform a deeply pop gesture: transforming ordinary objects — glasses, flowers, plates, utensils — into small secular altars, charged with memory and desire. These are not simple still lifes, but still life as in ‘arrested life’: each object preserves vitality, responds to light, and changes over time.
These are photographs without post-production, where the focus lies in emotion rather than perfection. As Almodóvar himself writes: “What interests me is the ecstasy of the moment, staying alert and capturing the emotion of the instant.” This fragile, vibrant tension runs through every shot, where the beauty of the everyday becomes sacred, precarious, and never consoling.
Amidst painterly reminiscences — like the work by Isabel Quintanilla that inspires the first shot — and literary echoes — such as the verses by Wordsworth quoted by Simone Azzoni in the afterword — Vida detenida is a poetic journey through a daily life transformed into a postmodern ritual, where objects lose their primary function and become emotional enigmas.
A rare and precious book, where — as in his cinema — things reveal themselves by surprising us.
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Photographs by Pedro Almodóvar
Texts by Pedro Almodóvar, Simone Azzoni
Book design Bunker15 × 24 cm
Leporello
24 pages
Italian/EnglishIsbn 978-88-98030-83-5
First edition September 2025
Out of StockLimousine EN
€ 32,00For purchases in the USA and Canada, we recommend contacting Oak Knoll.
Kathy Shorr, raised in Brooklyn, bought her first car at the age of 17 and always loved driving. Her passion for cars dates back to her childhood, a time when only a few residents in her neighborhood owned a vehicle. As a young girl, she was inspired by her grandmother’s resourcefulness—the only member of the family to own and drive a car. Perhaps this early influence led Shorr to find work as a limousine driver after graduating college, turning the vehicle into a mobile photography studio.
For nine months, she captured a diverse range of passengers heading to weddings, proms, quinceañeras, and other celebrations. The limousine’s elegant interior served as a private space, allowing passengers from working-class backgrounds to embrace a temporary sense of celebrity.
Shorr’s work thus draws from two distinct genres in photographic history: the road trip — exemplified by projects like California Kiss by Elliott Erwitt — and studio portraiture. Just as families once visited a photographer’s studio to capture special occasions, her subjects stepped into the car in their finest attire to celebrate significant moments. In the 1980s, the limousine epitomized the ultimate symbol of luxury and social status. Long, sleek, and often featuring opulent interiors, it represented economic success and access to an exclusive world.
As Chris Lezotte notes, although women were often stereotyped as too frail to handle the “motorized beast,” they have long defied these gender norms, reclaiming the automobile as a source of autonomy. Shorr’s grandmother primarily used her Chevy for family outings, but it also stood as a means of independence. Kathy, on the other hand, as both photographer and driver, relied on the car to offer herself and her passengers the journey of a lifetime.
Photographs by Kathy Shorr
Texts by Chris Lezotte, Jean Dykstra
Book Design by Bunker21 × 26 cm
96 pages
Hardcover
EnglishISBN 978-88-98030-76-7
First edition, November 2024
Out of StockEarly Works: 1964–1984 IT/EN
€ 45,00Wim Wenders collects in this volume twenty black and white photographs, taken between 1964 and 1984. They are scattered shots, captured in Algeria, England, Indonesia, Iceland, Australia, the United States and Russia. The subjects are the most diverse: panoramas of naturalistic landscapes, glimpses of everyday village or metropolitan life, lyrical and melancholic views in which the human element fades or stands out strongly.
Through them, the great director offers us, in an indirect and non-programmatic way, a way to approach his own style and to intuit, perhaps, the vision that animates his view of the world. In the introductory text, curator, and art critic Simone Azzoni stitches together the stories that animate these shots, accompanying a reflection that winds through the very early expressive phase of the great German master and expands to his entire career.
Adding to the selection of images is an exclusive interview, also addressed to the director by Azzoni, through which the poetic convictions that motivate recurring choices in the director’s career are investigated, an overview of the expressive invariants of Wenders’ interdisciplinary artistic production.
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Photographs by Wim Wenders
Texts by Simone Azzoni
Translation by Maria Serafini
Book design Bunker21 × 26 cm
64 pages
Hardcover
Italian/English
Isbn 978-88-98030-75-0
First published September 2024
Ramonika IT/SI/EN
€ 38,00Ramonika is a photographic journey through the enchanting Natisone valleys, a project that speaks of borderlands and centuries-old traditions, entering the intimate depths of this strip of land in Friuli Venezia Giulia bordering Slovenia. In 2023, the Photo dummy won the Bastianelli award for the best self-produced work.
The title of the project, Ramonika, comes from the word ‘accordion’ in the Benecian dialect, and is the fruit of the joint imagination of photographers Valentina Iaccarino and Pietro Peressutti, who have been frequent visitors to this area for more than a decade.
The images in the volume, enriched by a text by Federico Galvani, broken over several pages so that it would become part of the work, proceed with a cadenced rhythm, a metaphor for the breath of the accordion that captures the essence of life on the border. The atmosphere is delicate, poetic and conveys a sense of anticipation and discovery.
The reading path moves through landscapes and people, revealing not only the character of the region and its charisma but also the authors’ artistic vision and impressions. This work is a portrait of a community that proudly preserves its traditions and folklore. An immersion in the places of the margin that still vibrate in harmony with the landscape.
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Photographs by Valentina Iaccarino
Texts by Federico Galvani
Project by Valentina Iaccarino and Pietro Peressutti
Editing and design by Giulia Iacolutti20,5 × 26 cm
140 pages
Paperback
Italian/Slovenian/English
Isbn 978-88-98030-88-0
First published July 2024
Out of StockSkyline IT/EN
€ 35,00In 1978, Franco Fontana’s book Skyline helped pave the way for the new Italian photography with its radicalism and typically photographic approach. This book, made in a very simple way, without excessive graphic pretensions, presenting one photograph per page, was the culmination of a work in full maturity, freed from all the tics in vogue in photographic circles, advertising or conventional photojournalism.
Skyline praised no city, no local production, it was a work closed in on itself. Starting from tangible reality, in this case the landscape, and from horizon lines, he excluded all superfluous elements to preserve the essential, the exaltation of forms and colors. Fontana codified his familiar landscapes and unknown expanses in such a way that signs, space, form, and color became the only elements of the image.
With Skyline, before Luigi Ghirri’s famous book Kodachrome and six years before Viaggio in Italia, Franco Fontana was one of the first to question the linguistic possibilities of the chromatic process and the aesthetic characteristics of photography, personally reinterpreting the world around him while initiating a new reading of the Italian landscape.
This book is based on the original Italian edition and soft cover, both in format and presentation and in the number of photographs as set by Paola and Luigi Ghirri. To improve quality, the photogravure has been redone from the slides.
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Photographs by Franco Fontana
Text by Helmut Gernsheim
Book design Paola Bergonzoni and Luigi Ghirri21 × 27 cm
80 pages
Paperback
Italian/English
Isbn 978-88-98030-63-7
First published September 2023
€ 40,00The volume is a photographic testimony of the American urban fabric of the late 70’s. Charles H. Traub creates a series of portraits, depicting street tenants of Uptown Chicago and Bowery New York.
The author declares: «I wanted to see, to try to touch at least with my camera the experience of loss». The intent was not to satisfy a sort of voyeurism, but to witness the dignity and humanity of the homeless. They were very different from the contemporary ones; today they are no longer the result of individual destinies but of great social disparities.
A famous book by Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side, wondered «why lost people sometimes become greater human beings than those who have never been in their lives». Skid Row responds by highlighting a nobility that unites urban communities, even in the worst moments.
Unfortunately, this sensitivity, due to gentrification and indifference, is now systematically suppressed in favor of a transformation made by urban chic.
It is therefore even more necessary to recount these experiences, so as to recall the fundamental role of the “lost nobles” in the construction of the historical identity of a city.
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Text by Tom Huhn
Book design Bunker21 × 26 cm
112 pages
Hardcover
English
Isbn 978-88-98030-59-0
First published June 2023
Invisible EN
€ 58,00Photography is an act of self-awareness towards oneself and one’s cultural background. In his sixty-year career Franco Fontana has photographed what cannot be seen, succeeding in fixing through framing an ‘other’ image that is abstracted from reality, free from the portrayed subject. Geometry, proportions and composition have allowed him to reach, by progressive degrees, a conceptual synthesis that has been translated into linguistic unity and its formal manifestation, images.
Today, the crisis of the liquid society opens to the author the opportunity to explore new territories of the invisible ‘naked eye’, expanding the visual horizon and the iconographic structure while maintaining stylistic coherence and identity. If unity originates from the hybridization of differences, from the affirmation of unity itself originate the differences, in a system in constant balance between conceptual and formal, invisible and visible.
Invisible, a 168-page book with more than 100 photographs, is the restitution of meticulous archival research from which many previously unpublished shots have emerged: from the most experimental research to more intimate evidence of expressive freedom, which constitute the fertile ground from which grew the unmistakable style that has made Franco Fontana internationally famous.
Dedicated to those who know or approach the expressive path of the author, to those who want to explore that inner space, beyond reality, which belongs to the subjective interpretation, where you go in search of the image that is not yet there and that only the sensitivity of the photographer’s eye can capture and translate into a unique and unrepeatable shot. Thus, suddenly, the invisible becomes visible.
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Photographs by Franco Fontana
Editing by Lorenzo Respi
Book design Bunker22 × 27 cm
168 pages
Hardcover
English
Isbn 978-88-98030-58-3
First published November 2022
Out of Stock€ 54,00Early 1980s. From Milan to Marsala, Charles H. Traub composes an ironic and spontaneous portrait of an Italy that today we cannot say whether it really existed. The candid gaze of the American photographer immediately captures the idiosyncrasies of the Bel Paese: laziness, the unbearable and wonderful weight of history, the warm light of the countryside and the vivid light of the sea, the carefree and delightful life of the provinces. Bright blues, reds and yellows engulf the poses and gestures of strangers, transformed into affectionate archetypal caricatures, because Traub has in mind the work of another great master: Federico Fellini.
On his travels in Italy, it is Luigi Ghirri who is his guide: the two do not speak the same language, but share a form of sincere curiosity for what surrounds them and the ability to observe reality with ever new eyes. So it was that in 2012 Traub recognised a lost magic in the photographs from thirty years earlier and decided to make a series out of them. Published for the first time in 2013, Dolce Via Nova renews the original sequence with a wide selection of previously unpublished photographs, edited by Giulia Zorzi and Francesco Ceccarelli, and transforms the book with a new design by Bunker. An essay by poet Luigi Ballerini and a dialogue with Gus Powell complete the work.
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Texts by Luigi Ballerini, Gus Powell
Book design Bunker21 × 26 cm
144 pages
Hardback
English
Isbn 978-88-98030-49-1
First published June 2022
The Picture Man IT/EN
€ 48,001963. Gusmano Cesaretti, 19 years old, a passion for the ‘American dream’, a camera and a one-way ticket to New York. Thus was born the incredible story of ‘The Picture Man’, the man who, from the province of Lucca, without speaking English, landed in the United States, becoming perhaps the most authoritative and direct eye on American subcultures.
First in Chicago, then in Los Angeles, Gusmano and his camera are one and the same, his eye documenting first-hand the urban subcultures of the time: metropolitan jazz, the beat generation, the East L.A. of the Chicanos, the Mexican mystical experiences. He is in the right place at the right time, a direct and reliable eyewitness, with his raw, instinctive, vibrant and authentic style of so-called street photography, contributing to the genesis of the Western collective imagination. He later worked, as director of photography and image consultant, alongside some of the most influential directors of late 20th century American cinema, such as Michael Mann, Tony Scott and Marc Forster.
It is a life ‘on film’ that of Gusmano, traced in this book thanks to an interview conducted in 2018 by young photographer and creative director Stefano Lemon, who outlines his human experience and artistic career. 168 pages and 85 photographs, most of which have never been published, recount the stages of an extraordinary journey that began more than fifty years earlier, creating a sort of magical passing of the baton.
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Photographs by Gusmano Cesaretti
Preface by Jeffrey Deitch, Chaz Bojorquez
Texts by Stefano Lemon
Calligraphy by Luca Barcellona
Book design by Bunker17 × 25 cm
168 pages
Swiss style paperback
English/Italian
Isbn 978-88-98030-38-5
First published November 2021
-25% OffOriginal price was: € 22,00.€ 16,50Current price is: € 16,50.Guido Scarabottolo, one of Italy’s best-known and best-loved illustrators, presents in this volume a never-before-seen aspect of his artistic production: not drawings, but a series of thirty-two photographs that the author took during a journey of discovery through Iran, where he was invited on the occasion of the Tehran Book Fair. Deeply fascinated by the places and people he encountered while visiting cities, villages and the desert, Scarabottolo felt the urge to fix his impressions with an instrument that would allow him to capture them quickly. In spite of the unusual medium, all his sensitivity as a man and artist emerges from these shots. He is also capable of casting his gaze on unexpected subjects that manage to render different aspects of the complexity of Persian culture with great simplicity and effectiveness.
Scarabottolo, graphic designer and illustrator, proves with this work that he is an artist who is not afraid to momentarily abandon his favourite expressive technique and let himself be guided only by his own gaze and curiosity. Edited by Melania Gazzotti and Giulia Giazzoli, the volume is enriched by a critical text by Andrea Pinotti, lecturer in aesthetics, writer and expert in visual culture.
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Edited by Melania Gazzotti and Giulia Giazzoli
Texts by Guido Scarabottolo, Andrea Pinotti, Melania Gazzotti and Giulia Giazzoli
Photos and illustrations by Guido Scarabottolo
Book design by Bunker21 × 28 cm
64 pages
Bound with elastic
Italian
Isbn 978-88-98030-11-8
First published November 2017
Out of Stock€ 65,00Cesare Leonardi. L’Architettura della Vita / The Architecture of Life narrates the eclectic and interdisciplinary character of Cesare Leonardi’s research. Busy in a continuous and passionate investigation, far from notoriety despite the fact that some of his works are found in the most important museums of the world and are published on international magazines, Cesare Leonardi is the example of a life dedicated to architecture and planning. Through a flow of images, interspersed with thematic essays, his production is described: a kinetic system that has passed seamlessly from design to photography, from photography to drawing, from drawing to architecture, from architecture to sculpture.
The book comes out on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Galleria Civica of Modena, from September 15, 2017 to February 4, 2018. A tribute from the city of Modena to the work of Cesare Leonardi over the course of four decades. The publication would not have been possible without the decisive contribution of the Cesare Leonardi Architect Archive, in particular thanks to the efforts of Andrea Cavani and Giulio Orsini, researchers at the Archive and curators of the catalog.
More than 500 images including photographs, drawings, sketches and drafts show the work of Cesare Leonardi throughout his life, accompanied by texts written specifically by Veronica Bastai, Stefano Bulgarelli, Andrea Cavani, Andrea Costa, Daniele De Luigi, Eugenio Gazzola, Giancarlo Martinelli, Lucia Miodini, Giulio Orsini, Jessica Pagani, Francesco Samassa and Paola Viganò.
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Edited by Andrea Cavani & Giulio Orsini
Book design Bunker23.5 × 28.5 cm
320 pages
More than 500 images
Hardcover
Italian/English
Isbn 978-88-98030-24-8
First published September 2017
Out of Stock€ 45,00Inspired by the late, great cartoonist William Steig and his famous book, The Lonely Ones (which combines Steig’s line-drawn characters with simple lines of dialogue with themselves), photographer Gus Powell has created his own ‘lonely ones’. Quiet yet evocative colour photographs of interiors and landscapes, inhabited by people, animals and inanimate characters.
Each photograph is accompanied by an evocative text, which functions in the opposite way to a caption: each of the 40 images in the book is hidden by the page folded in on itself, on the back of which the sentence is printed. Thus each photograph is revealed one by one by opening the page. “Which way to the convention?” comments the photograph of a butterfly in mid-air.
Lazy Dog publishes this new edition of the book in three languages, enriched in addition to English by translations into Italian and Japanese.
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Text and photographs by Gus Powell
Book design by Gus Powell12.5 × 18.6 cm
90 pages
40 photographs
Hardback
English/Italian/Japanese
Isbn 978-88-98030-06-4
First Edition February 2017
-30% OffOriginal price was: € 39,00.€ 27,30Current price is: € 27,30.There is more than what meets the eye in Matthew Albanese’s captivating works. From an erupting volcano to a sweeping tornado to the landing on the moon, nothing is quite what it appears to be. Welcome to the extra-ordinary world of Matthew Albanese, where glaciers are not made of ice but of sugar, salt, egg whites, food coloring, flour and light.
Albanese meticulously fabricates and then photographs small-scale models of complex panoramic vistas, such as wind-blown willows on stormy rivers and raging forest fires, using humble materials including cotton batting, boiled sugar candy, sand, and feathers. By masterly manipulating the scale, depth of field, balance and lighting, he alters the appearance of the materials to create dramatic and emotionally evocative landscapes. This beautifully designed book brings together for the first time all the photographs in the Strange World series, including a new work made especially for the publication. The book features an engaging essay by David Revere McFadden, behind-the-scenes images of the miniature worlds, and insightful text by the artist on the process of his work.
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Tests by Matthew Albanese
Essay by David Revere McFadden
Book design Pitis22.5 × 28 cm (9 × 11”)
96 pages
105 color plates
Hardcover
English
Isbn 978-88-98030-03-3
