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Il Giro Del Mondo Con Un Tavolino (Book)
*Italian Language Edition* Era un pomeriggio assolato del maggio 1974 quando Roberto si ritrovò in un mercatino di ferri vecchi a Milano e… fu amore a prima vista. Non sapeva a cosa gli sarebbe servito quel vecchio e rugginoso tavolino, ma si fece guidare dalla sua passione per gli oggetti stravaganti e lo acquistò. Scopri il giro del mondo con un tavolino da Milano a Roma, poi Pisa e Venezia, e ancora Parigi, Berlino, Londra, Amsterdam, fino a New York.
You Tourned the Tables on Me (Book)
Tip! Photographs by Roberto Masotti, texts by Carlo Maria Cella, Silvia Lelli, Luca Scarlini. You tourned the tables on me, one hundred and fifteen contemporary musicians and composers portrayed by Roberto Masotti between 1974 and 1981 with the constant (but always variable) presence of a table as a prop that always travels with the photographer. Including, among others, Robert Ashley, Derek Bailey, David Behrman, Han Bennink, Steve Beresford, Luciano Berio, Carla Bley, Lester Bowie, Anthony Bra…
Franco Battiato, Nucleus (Book)
Absolutely recommended. Photographs by Roberto Masotti, texts by Carlo Maria Cella, Silvia Lelli, Luca Scarlini. This is the third volume dedicated to musicians-composers that Masotti has collected for and with the publisher Seipersei after those dedicated to Keith Jarrett and John Cage. The one on Battiato shows a panorama of photographs that starts in 1973 with a service made in Bologna in the studio and on location commissioned by the Bla Bla label by Pino Massara and followed by a whole seri…
John Cage, In a Landscape (Book)
Photographs by Roberto Masotti, Lelli e Masotti Forewords by Joan La Barbara, Franco Masotti, Veniero Rizzardi . The book "John Cage, in a landscape" is based on a rich photographic material taken to the American composer and theorist between 1977 and 1991, mainly by Roberto Masotti and in the remaining part by Lelli and Masotti, both during events that took place in Italy and abroad, like in his New York house. To John Cage correspond such a multiplicity of aspects that it is even difficult …
Jazz Area
Deluxe edition on sirio black 140gr, silver and black printing, 166 pages. Throughout the heady years of Italy’s 1970s and ’80s avant-garde and jazz music scenes, Roberto Masotti was on hand to observe and photograph some of the most significant bands, musicians and concerts of the twentieth century. Serving as staff photographer for Gong magazine, as well as Ecm and Cramps labels since 1973, Masotti photographed such musicians as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Sun Ra, Arvo Pärt, Julius Eastman, Ar…