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Volti di rinascita
Ad oggi, in Italia, i trapiantati viventi sono circa 55.000 e, simbolicamente, 55 sono le storie scelte per raccontare il più grande miracolo della medicina moderna: il trapianto di organi. Ma qui non si tratta di un intervento chirurgico come tutti gli altri, frutto unicamente del progresso medico-scientifico. Non potendo prescindere dalla donazione di organi, il trapianto è il risultato anche, e soprattutto, di una scelta di solidarietà, filo conduttore delle storie di rinascita raccolte nel volume. Ogni storia, pur nel comune denominatore del trapianto, è originale e diversa, come unico e irripetibile è l’essere umano. E ogni volto che il lettore incrocia nell’opera è un incontr...
Raphael’s Ostrich
Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the menageries and grotesque ornaments of sixteenth-century Italy. Following the complex history of shifting interpretations given to the ostrich in scientific, literary, religious, poetic, and satirical texts and images, D’Elia demonstrates the rich variety of ways in which people made sense of this living “monster,” which was depicted as the embodiment of heresy, stupidit...
East of Nowhere
A poetic and empathetic vision of human perseverance, East of Nowhere captures, in stunning photographs, the reality of everyday life in central and Eastern Europe before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1987, Fabio Ponzio embarked on a photographic odyssey across Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Starting in Istanbul, and making his way to Poland, Ponzio found little food in the shops and long lines to buy bread. With supplies dwindling in the shops and immense crowds to buy necessities, the countries along his route were on the verge of collapse. And in the autumn of 1989, as the various regimes of communist countries from Budapest to Bucharest began to crumble, everyth...
