BERTOLI, Giasco. Tennis Courts 1999 – 2009.

[Zurich]: Nieves, 2009. First edition. Softcover. 25.6cm by 19.6cm. Unpaginated. The first volume in Bertoli’s long-running photographic series documenting empty and abandoned tennis courts around the world. Beginning with an encounter in southern Switzerland and expanding into a global project, Bertoli’s images capture these spaces in their silence — courts once shaped by human activity, now presented without players, positioned between structure and decay. His work treats the courts as cultural and architectural forms, registering surface, light, colour, and context without anecdote, producing a typological portrait of a familiar yet uncanny urban and suburban landscape. A very good copy in photo-illustrated wrappers. Now scarce.