FRACCHIA, Dino. Continuous Days: Parco Lambro, Milano 29/5/1975 – 26/6/1976.

(Milan and Foligno, Italy): a+mbookstore edizioni and Viaindustriae, 2015.  First edition.  Softcover.  24cm by 16.5cm.  Unpaginated.  Published to accompany the exhibition at COLLI Independant Art Gallery, Rome,  March 14 – April 11, 2015.  A compelling visual chronicle of Italy’s radical youth counterculture in the mid-1970s, this volume presents 13 previously unpublished rolls of film shot by Milanese photojournalist Dino Fracchia during the final two editions (1975 and 1976) of the Festival del proletariato giovanile in Parco Lambro, Milan. Organized by the underground magazine Re Nudo, these festivals were Italy’s answer to Woodstock, blending music, protest, and communal living. Fracchia’s images capture the raw energy of over 100,000 participants—freaks, feminists, militants, and musicians—amidst a backdrop of tents, performances, and political discourse. The photographs document both the utopian aspirations and the underlying tensions that foreshadowed the social unrest of 1977.  A very good copy in card covers with paper dust jacket.