Dino Fracchia
Continuous Days. Parco Lambro
Edited by Amedeo Martegani and Emanuele De Donno
Text curated by Concetta Modica
Design Amedeo Martegani
16,5 x 24 cm
512 pages, B/W
Paperback, dust jacket
Co-published by a+mbookstore edizioni, Milano / VIAINDUSTRIAE Publishing, Foligno, 2015
€ 35,00
Continuous days recounts the happenings of the Italian proletariat youth, the "Festival di Re Nudo", that took place in the 70s in Parco Lambro, Milan. Photojournalist Dino Fracchia, having attended the three previous editions without the camera, in 1975 and 1976 returned to photograph the vibrant landscape composed by 100,000 youngsters.
The book reproduces in full, without any intervention of editing, the thirteen unpublished rolls documenting the flow of events: through the pages you can relive those days and retrace the developements of "Re Nudo" circulation, originally an underground magazine of political counterculture which then expanded beyond paper in the form of civil rights movements of various kind, from homosexuality to the right to assemble. The party is here understood as real reappropriation of the social nature against the metropolis: not only a way to slip in rallies of political catechism, but an opportunity to accumulate power, to reseize the time.
Through the choice of ordinarily and repeatedly telling the slowly untying of events, the book attempts to communicate the density of those days, the last ones before the riots that would soon put an end to the "Woodstock dream". The social reportage is accompanied by a transcript of a conversation between the photographer and journalist Claudio Jaccarino, his fellow at the time: a stream of consciousness that recalls the poetry of the Beat Generation and at the same time reveals its illusions and internal contradictions.
“the Parco Lambro edition of 1976
which is the last one
is the one that I don’t remember where I read it or who wrote it
is called of the lost innocence
[…]
I mean, from that one on it was never the same again
some faces will show up in violent demonstration in the streets
until then Parco Lambro was a sort of mimicry of Woodstock festivals peace and love
from then on peace and love do down the drain tensions burst
it is the beginning of we want it all
music must be free
movies must be free
and it ended up in the way it ended upâ€
