The Wonder of Innocence - Hardcover

Gina Lollobrigida

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810935732 ISBN 13: 9780810935730

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 1994

In this, her fifth book of photographs, world-renowned actress/photographer Gina Lollobrigida has created a brilliantly colorful, surrealistic journey into a fantasy world of children and animals. The result of many years of travel to all corners of the world, The Wonder of Innocence offers a dreamlike, child's-eye view of life.
Full of spontaneity, whimsy, and her great imagination, Gina Lollobrigida's photographs are the result of a new and personal technique she developed, one involving the painstaking joining of a multitude of images. The photographs are coupled with quotations from poets, philosophers, politicians, and artists as diverse as Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, John Keats, Charles de Gaulle, Oscar Wilde, Confucius, Mark Twain, and Albert Einstein, as well as by proverbs and snippets of local folklore. A foreword by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, an introduction by Lollobrigida, and essays by Carlo Rubbia, Ernesto Caffo, and Fulco Pratesi further illuminate the themes explored in the photographs.
This enchanting, original volume reflects Lollobrigida's love of children everywhere and her respect for animals, and offers the underlying hope that someday, children and adults and all creatures can live together in harmony, in a world free from destruction, war, and ecological disaster. Captured in her photographs is her belief that if we do not appreciate the nature that surrounds us, we lose the ability to dream.
Gina Lollobrigida is not only an actress but also an accomplished painter, sculptor, and photographer. The Wonder of Innocence represents a departure from her previous books, which are more journalistic and dramatic.
Lollobrigida is a photographer interested primarily in the human experience, searching for truth and the beauty around us. She tries to capture real emotions and does so with gentle humor, by, as she says, "creating with my camera the most beautiful images of my childhood dreams."

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

From Publishers Weekly:

Using composites of pictures she has taken all over the world, actress-photographer Lollobrigida here creates a dazzling album of what she calls ``new images...different from day-to-day reality'' in a kind of environmental crusade invoking the universal curiosity and innocence of children. Her surrealist pageant features a little girl crouching under an enormous daisy, another cringing before a bee as big as a dog, one boy riding a lily pad, another shinnying up the neck of an ostrich. Essays by three Italian authors (Carlo Rubbia, Fulcorratesi, Ernesto Caffo) urge a more childlike philosophy to save planet Earth. Wise sayings from Mark Twain to Mother Teresa do not relate directly to the 167 fantasy-photos they accompany, or even to childhood itself, something of a failure if the whole work were not so refreshing and colorful.

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