Ransoms - Romantic Archive of Lost Photos

$52.00

Riscatti is back in reprint. Romantic archive of lost photos, with three new covers.

Ransoms - Romantic Archive of Lost Photos is the first book of RVM Hub, the publishing house of the photographic magazine RVM Magazine. 
Curated by Ivana Marrone, the book collects vintage black and white photos that are not connected to each other that tell lives and stories of all kinds and kinds: from the sea to the mountains, from sports, to the fatigue of work, to travel.

The curator in a superhuman intent with this book has two objectives: on the one hand the desperate search, through their diffusion, of the true stories behind the photographs she found; on the other hand, he wanted to give each of these disconnected photos a story, invent a meaning and a human story.

And so he hired a commendable team of "employees of a land registry of fantasy "as the preface tells us, which combined with each photo have invented a story able to give life to his characters energy, true passions, and fantastic stories of fragments of lived lives. 

What comes out is a delicate work: the representation of unconnected moments of memory that make us bounce lightly with the imagination in the most intimate moments in the lives of others. 

These employees are:

Davide Toffolo
Giovanni Truppi
Simona Pampallona
Errico Buonanno
Giorgio Cappozzo
Francesca De Salvia
Luca Longobardi
Francesco Di Bella
Carlo Virzì
Flavio Soriga
Alessandro Fullin
Giorgio Zanchini
Roberto Saviano
Davide Orecchio
Giorgio Nerone
Fernando Masullo
Andrea Bozzo
Teeth
Francesca Mancini
Francesco Pacifico
Alessandro Mazzarelli
Irene Dionysus
Giuseppe Rizzo
Massimiliano Coccia
Giuseppe Catozzella
Noemi Gentleman
Antonella Lattanzi
Valerio Valentini
Carlo Ruggiero
Claudia Ferri
Corrado Fortuna
Aldo Nove
I'm a dog
Gallico wines
Judith Sin
Giordano Meacci
Maria Rita Di Bari
Riccardo Festa
Chiara Gamberale
Matteo B. Bianchi
Nadia Terranova
Paola Moretti
Francesco Ciavaglioli
Bianca Pitzorno
Claudio Morici
Carlo De Ruggieri
Caterina Venturini
Paola Soriga
Ester Armanino
Pino Marino
Angelo Trabace
Paolo Di Paolo
Francesco Lettieri
Giorgio Then
Francesca Genti
Erri De Luca
Vinicio Capossela
Maurizio Carucci
Ivan Talarico
Gianluca De Rubertis
Gianluca Vassallo
Susanna Marietti
Patrizio Gonnella
Martina Zucca
Colapesce
Melissa Panarello
Carolina Cutolo 

 

16×20 cm
148 pp.
Paperback in oriental style with dust jacket
Fedrigoni Arcoprint Milk 70 gr (internal)
Fedrigoni Arcoprint Milk 120 gr (copertina)
Single coated Kraft White 60 gr (dust jacket)
Second Italian edition: April 2021
Concept and curation of the Riscatti project: Ivana Marrone © 2015
Editorial coordination: Agnese Porto, Giammaria De Gasperis
Artistic direction: Francesca Pignataro
Graphic design: Francesca Pignataro, Giovanni Cavalleri
Translations: Livia Franchini
Editing: Marzia Grillo
Photo scans: DIGID’A Fine Art Prints - Rome
Printing: Fontegrafica Srl - Cinisello Balsamo (MI)