Archivio #07

What was the world like in 1973?

The world of 1973, as we recount it in this issue, wanders around and circles a city that is a chasm in History: Naples and the cholera epidemic of ’73; Naples and the threat of bradyseism in ’70; Naples and its fiery belly in ’79; Naples and a woman who, in ’74, set herself on fire in the bed of a criminal asylum; Naples as seen through the lens of great photographer Mimmo Jodice, who throughout that decade ventured deep into its core, bringing to the surface images in white, but mostly in black.

An interview with Oscar-winning set designer Dante Ferretti / A portrait of John Alcorn as the illustrator and graphic designer who changed the Italian publishing scene / A round of the exquisite corpse game with archive materials, reimagined by Fausto Paravidino / A letter from 1973 by Michele De Lucchi, reflecting on his years as a young radical architect / The transcript of a TV documentary by Loredana Rotondo (one of the authors of the groundbreaking Trial for Rape) / A letter from Mimmo Jodice recalling his Seventies, torn between photography and activism / A journey through the archive of Franco Bottino, photographer of beauty and product / An epistolary conversation with Alan Bishop, one of the founders of the label Sublime Frequencies

23 archives involved
150 archival documents brought to light
1 reportage
5 interviews
2 letters
1 fiction story
1 reproduction of the mimeographed Fabbrica & Città in poster format

Publisher: Promemoria

Sofcover
176 pages