It came out for Allemandi Publisher a beautiful on the photography of Henry Gusella. Is titled On photography and beyond, a path inside photographic criticism. Fascinating and engaging, the volume does not distract the reader's attention for a single instant from the great witnesses of our time, the photographers, whose lives and worlds Gusella has investigated.
Refined and elegant, the volume collects the writings from books and reviews in important Italian newspapers - Il Sole 24 Ore, La Repubblica, L'Arena, Il Giornale di Vicenza, Il Mattino di Padova and l'Adige - which Gusella produced in almost twenty years of militant criticism.
Cultural organizer and curator of exhibitions (he has curated over 250), the Paduan critic scans the photographic world with a fine and acute eye.
From Mimmo Jodice – of which it is the beautiful cover of the book, gorgoneion, Pompeii, 1982, which is part of the Collection of the Venice Foundation / Italo Zannier Archive – to Franco Fontana, from Gabriele Basilico to Gianni Berengo Gardin, via Guido Guidi, Fulvio Roiter, Luca Campigotto, Helmut Newton, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Elio Ciol, Albert Steiner, Raffaello Bassotto, Roman Signer, Walter Nierdermayr, Joseph Beuys, Thomas Ruff, Nadar, Erwitt, Andrei Tarkovskij, Boris Mikhailov, Douglas Kirkland, Anton Corbijn, Spencer Tunick, David LaChapelle, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Man Ray, Gianluigi Colin and many more, On photography and beyond turns out to be a real narrative journey in which to immerse yourself in the images of hundreds of photographers who have represented and interpreted our time since the mid-nineteenth century.
