Something in the sky

Item

Botto, Gianfranco - Italy 1963. 2007. Something in the Sky. Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries, Urban Books, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/urban-books/item/2951

Title: Something in the sky
Creator: Botto, Gianfranco - Italy 1963
Date: 2008
Description: Title Description - Without words and with one slow pan, this book of photographs portrays a whole world. Starting inside, with a shot of a young woman absorbed in her reading and the music on her headphones, the view moves outward into the streets, schoolyards, and empty lots of an Italian suburb. Although the sky is apocalyptically red, the images are not damning; they are intensely observed views of the order and disorders of growing up in suburbia. The book ends back inside,with a different person, head bent, listening to music and reading magazines. This smart refusal to close the circle with absolute coherence is the key to the subtle disruption this book enacts on the insular world it depicts. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).; Physical Description - Artist's book, fabric bound cover, paper jacket, semi-matte paper
Catalog record.
Call Number: N6923.B672 A4 2001
Link to Catalog Record: https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b2984033~S2
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Publisher: Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries
Tags: Artist supplied tags
Artist Keywords: Identity of place
Artist Keywords: Industrialization / decay
Artist Keywords: Interiors
Artist Keywords: Site specific / installation; Tags supplied by Dr. Jana Harper, of Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Sam Fox Keywords:; Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library Keywords: Botto, Gianfranco, 1963- -- Catalogs
Library Keywords: Bruno, Roberta, 1966- -- Catalogs
Library Keywords: Suburban life in art
Contributor: Bruno, Roberta - Italy 1966

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