Gibellina 1968, otto minuti dopo le tre
Giuseppe Iannello
Seipersei Edizioni
English, Italian
Hardcover
80 pages
125 x 250 mm
2021
ISBN 9788894653380
The author explores the generational disconnection of the new city and, through this, the lost memories of the old Gibellina. With the weight of history on their shoulders, it’s now up to the new generation to carry the story of a home they’ve never known. For this book, the fragmentation of memory is evident in the archive images that Iannello projects on the walls of the Grande Cretto. Here and in these photographs, the lives of the past merge with the arid stone textures of the present. In these images Iannello represents the streets, daily life and faces of Gibellina before the earthquake. A nostalgic image is born of an idealized town which, in the author’s photographs, is crumbling together with the walls of the Cretto di Burri.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/tsundoku-art-book-fair-2023/products/gibellina-1968-otto-minuti-dopo-le-tre-giuseppe-iannello?_pos=1&_sid=20bda892b&_ss=r)
About the Artist
Giuseppe Iannello is an Italian photographer based between Newport (Wales), and Palermo (Italy). He is a current BA (Hons) Documentary Photography student at the University of South Wales. He first approached photography through film cameras and he still prefers to use film today. He was inspired by the work of Gabriele Basilico and Luigi Ghirri for their way of exploring the urban landscape and their approach towards the use of photography as a medium. For this reason, his early work are focused on the interference of the human being on the natural environment. His photography is strict, meticulous and tidy and these qualities are visible in his recent projects. The new bodies of work are now based on small communities, immigrants and social issues.
(source: https://www.lensculture.com/giuseppe-iannello)
About the Publisher
The independent publishing house Seipersei was born in Siena in 2011 with Stefano Vigni who published his first photographic book “20000km” in self publishing. At his side, Chiara Narcisi, his partner in life and work. Seipersei has been interested in social issues since its origins , dealing with important topics such as gender identity, the Syrian civil war, stereotypes of female beauty, pollution and environmental sustainability, drug trafficking in Mexico, the 2016 earthquake in central Italy and the by Gibellina in 1968 and others. Since 2021 they have created the Insights series, a series of essays related to contemporary photography.
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