5 Continents Editions are proud to announce that Hemba – photographs by Luigi Spina, text by Costa Petridis – has been shortlisted for best tribal arts book at the 2018 FILAF (18-24 June). The 8th award ceremony will take place at Perpignan theatre on Saturday 23 June 2018.
“A history of photography that respects photographers”, as one of the descriptions of John Szarkowski’s The Photographer’s Eye puts it, and 5 Continents Editon’s own respect takes the form of a new Italian paperback edition and a reprint in French. We are proud that our catalogue has been able to boast such an illustrious title for…
Today Cassina has chosen 5 Continents Editions to “bring new life” to its extraordinary bookcases. We will inaugurate our partnership at the Design Week and have the pleasure of jazzing up Franco Albini’s iconic Infinito bookcase in the renovated Cassina showroom on Via Durini.
The photographs of the marble sculptures in the Farnese Collection and the bronze dancers in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples are shown here as examples of our publishing ventures with Luigi Spina. Art books as an elegant, enduring way of communicating and handing down knowledge across time.