1977 (2005) musicfilm brilliant and now very rare

brilliant and now very rare artist's book monograph on that bad boy of Belgian fashion

Now one of the most difficult-to-find publications including work by Eggleston

and rock band The Queens of the Stone Age

stood staring out across the Mediterranean

he was drawn to the immediacy of the photographic medium that allowed him to create images through a direct encounter with the world

1977 (2005) musicfilm brilliant and now very rareIn 1977, Pietro Mattioli took portraits in Zurich's first Punk and New Wave nightclub. Their reduced and austere aesthetics followed a simple formula: the sitters were photographed with a flashlight in front of a neutral background, a fast and immediate look that was as outrageously sensationalist as it was coolly narcissistic. Mattioli created portraits that still look as fresh as if they were taken last night. They are combined with views of