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In 1978, the book Skyline by Franco Fontana helped pave the way for new Italian photography by its radicalism and its typically photographic approach. It was also the first book of the Punto e Virgola editions founded by Luigi Ghirri in Modena, a sacred label where almost all the important photographers of his generation (Basilico, Jodice, Chiaramonte, Guidi, Salbitani, etc.) in a journey that revealed them all to the general public. The book published simultaneously in France by Contrejour was a huge success and was reissued twice in the same year.

Skyline did not praise any city, did not …