I have been dealing with photographic books for several years in a continuous research and study and I believe that talking about protesting is truly important because it is a part of our society and an ever-current topic.
Indisputably, just as society has changed, so too the concerned demonstrations and revolts publications, from the sixties onwards, have changed and they evolved in language, graphics and content.
My proposal on this platform, protestinphotobook.com, focuses on these aspects. Thinking about the discarded magazine’s mission, I believe it would be interesting to be able to see the images scraps not used in the many protest books, things that could have been insignificant in the sixties, today, revisiting them with all the occurred changes, could have another communicative value and perhaps compose different stories. The current trend tells us of family stories that appear from their grandparents’ trunks, but my attention shifts to what could be in the reporters’ proofs of the seventies, certainly something interesting.
In any case, my research on protest books is an activity in progress. Obviously, I started with the best-known books such as È il ’77 of Tano D’amico , Telex Iran of Gilless Peress – Minamata of Eugene and Aileen Smith, and then continue in search of unknown publications or publications that were relevant or linked to protesting such as books on resilience, biographies of revolutionaries. For example Fidel Castro, or the Urban Guerrilla Minimanual by Carlos Marighella.