Léo Yiğit Ekiz

Elio Montanari

Alexander Brodsky, James Lee Byars, Cai Guo-Qiang

Elio spent his life photographing artists at work. This book gives three of them a chapter each: Alexander Brodsky building a timber house on the water in Venice, James Lee Byars in his black hat and gold suit, and Cai Guo-Qiang's sculptors modelling Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard for the 1999 Biennale. I retouched the photographs, designed the 468 pages and prepared the book for print.

Photobook, A4 landscape · 468 pages · 2022

Front cover: ELIO MONTANARI above a strip of three photographs (a timber house going up, James Lee Byars on a scaffold, a sculptor beside a clay figure in a straw hat), the three artists' names below
Front cover
Back cover: ELIO MONTANARI in white on grey, above the same strip of three photographs
Back cover
Photographs
Elio Montanari
My part
Retouching, book design and prepress
Book
Photobook, A4 landscape, 468 pages, 2022
pp. 2–3It opens with my portrait of Elio at his large-format camera.
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Alexander Brodsky

  1. pp. 10–11
  2. pp. 12–13
  3. pp. 38–39
  4. pp. 56–57
  5. pp. 62–63
  6. pp. 114–115
  7. pp. 140–141
  8. pp. 186–187
193

James Lee Byars

  1. pp. 196–197
  2. pp. 204–205
  3. pp. 208–209
  4. pp. 210–211
  5. pp. 218–219
  6. pp. 220–221
  7. pp. 226–227
  8. pp. 246–247
251

Cai Guo-Qiang

Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard, 1999, by Cai Guo-Qiang, as installed at the 48th Venice Biennale, dAPERTutto, Arsenale and Giardini di Castello, 13 June – 7 November 1999.

  1. pp. 254–255
  2. pp. 262–263
  3. pp. 292–293
  4. pp. 372–373
  5. pp. 416–417
  6. pp. 434–435
  7. pp. 446–447
  8. pp. 454–455

Credits

Photographs
Elio Montanari
Book design
Léo Yiğit Ekiz
Retouching and prepress
Léo Yiğit Ekiz
Portrait of Elio, page 3
Léo Yiğit Ekiz

Photographs © Elio Montanari · Design © Léo Yiğit Ekiz · 2022