View source for Thematic: Photobook Analysis ''Bunga Bunga''

== Book Facts ==

'''Title''': Bunga Bunga

'''Photographer''': Lorenzo Tricoli

'''Year''': 2014

'''Edition''': does't say

'''Number of images''': 14 (13 images color, 1 image black and white)

'''Size''': ca. 15 x 25 cm

'''Price''': ca 28 EUR


== Content ==

'''Subject''': The book contains portraits of young women who were involved in the underage prostitution parties from Berlusconi around 2010. The portraits are images from the press either from internet or from printed media. 

'''Photography''': The images all seem cropped, only leaving the face of the women. Some of them look seductively, others don't. They are different in style. Some seem to be more snapshots, others classical staged portraits. All images show artefacts that you have on big posters. I assume they are added digitally.

'''Purpose of publication''': I read it as a comment on current political absurdity in Italy

'''Cover image''': One of the portraits of the girls. It's the image that appears in the book on the first page.

'''Publisher''' : Self published


== Form ==

'''Overall design''': The book is made of laminatedstiff and glossy pages with spiral binding. the images inside are cut into three pieces. Section on top shows the forehead, the section in the middle shows eyes and nose and the section at the bottom show lips and chin of the women. The viewer can combine these section as liked creating strange new faces. The parts of the faces don't always perfectly line up, sometimes the new face doesn't really work out in sense of proportions.