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Sicilian Element
Photo book
Graphic design · Layout · Cover · Print
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Sicilian element* is a photography book by Noris Cocci: one hundred and eighteen pages, 160 by 240 millimetres, published in 2023 by Pholio. I did the graphic design and the layout. The photographs travel through Sicily page after page — Palermo, Marzamemi, Modica, Selinunte, Etna — and what holds the thread between one and the next is colour.
Solid fields
Each photograph rests on a field of yellow or red taken from the colours of the shot next to it. The format changes on every page: here the image takes the whole sheet, two pages later it is a strip two centimetres high with the colour around it.
An asterisk
The asterisk of the title comes back after every place name: modica*, marzamemi*, punta bianca*. The captions are in small type, sometimes rotated by ninety degrees, and the numbers run in pairs in the corners, 38—39, as if the double page were a single one.
The cover photograph is this one, which inside the book is on pages 98—99. On the cover the sky is cut out and replaced with yellow, and the black of the columns stays: the same image, with what was behind it removed.
Every so often the sequence stops on a plate built at the desk: a single subject mirrored and repeated until it becomes a pattern. These are the points where the book stops looking and starts composing.
One hundred and eighteen pages, 160 by 240 millimetres, softcover with flaps. Printed in Italy in 2023 by Pholio, ISBN 9788890697234. At the back the author's biography, in Italian and English.
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