Achille Bologna (1881-1958) was one of the most eminent figures of art photography in Italy between the two World Wars. Photographer, promoter of international salons, publisher of influential journals, and the author of a seminal book.
"""Bologna was among the few in Italy who advocated the use of the expressive potential of the photographic medium according to the developments of modern world photography, which started with Stieglitz in New York at the beginning of the century with the idea of 'straight photography.'... Among the most daring photographers were Bricarelli and Bologna, aimed to radically simplify the image structure, and to contain it in a few signs within geometrical shapes and expanded tones."" -Italo Zannier, Luci ed Ombre: Gli annuari della fotografia artistica italiana (Alinari, 1987). ""In Italy, the most important theoretician of the New Photography is Achille Bologna, who in 1935 published the seminal book Come si fotografa oggi."" ―Quoted in Culturalismi.com. On the occasion of the exhibition ""Inquadrare il moderno: architettura e fotografia in Italia, 1926-1965,"" Maxxi Museo, Rome, 2011. ""Bologna's important albeit overlooked work is restored to life in this book by a superb display of photographs accompanied by engaging editorial choices."" -Lucia Alma Wolf, Italian Specialist Librarian, Library of Congress"