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Description
Launch of "Livros de Fotografia em Portugal: da revolução ao presente" in Lisbon (Portugal).
This book, co-published by GHOST, Pierrot le Fou and STET, presents the results of an unprecedented investigation into the recent history of the Portuguese photography book, as a resource for artistic and documentary creation and a point of convergence for collaboration between photographers, designers, writers and publishers.
David-Alexandre Guéniot, Filipa Valladares, José Luís Neves and Susana Lourenço Marques are responsible for the editorial work. The Spanish photography historian and curator Horacio Fernández is the author of the foreword, and the texts are signed by Catarina Rosendo, Emília Tavares, Filipe Figueiredo, Inês Fernandes, João Seguro, José Bértolo, José Luís Neves, Margarida Medeiros, Mário Moura, Miguel von Hafe Pérez, Sandra Vieira Jürgens, Sérgio Mah, Susana Lourenço Marques, Susana S. Martins and Tania Martuscelli, researchers and curators in the fields of visual arts, design and the history of photography.
The book will be presented by the editors with contributions by Horacio Fernández, Emília Tavares and Susana S. Martins.