Eric Bachmann: Casa Verdi

Author/Contributor(s):	Bachmann, Eric
Publisher:	Patrick Frey Edition
Date:	02/01/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In 1981, Swiss photographer Eric Bachmann and German journalist Christian Kmmerling put together a report for a Swiss magazine on the elegiac world of the remarkable Milan retirement home Casa di Riposo per Musicistian old-age home founded in 1896 by Giuseppe Verdi for musicians and opera singers who find themselves penniless in their sunset years. A deeply compassionate document of the fates of the residents, Casa Verdi now brings together in a single volume the bulk of Bachmanns photo archive of these peculiar figures within their living quarters, Kmmerlings sensitive essay and by-andlarge reconstructed biographies of the retired musician and singers. Bachmanns past publications with Edition Patrick Frey include Muhammad Ali, Zu?rich, 26.12.1971 (2015) and Leutchenbach Karambuli (2001).