The volume presents Mulas’s unique vision of photography as an operation of criticism and comprehension of contemporary art.

A friend and associate of the greatest artists of the postwar period, from Fontana to Consagra and from Melotti to Pistoletto, Mulas theorized the need to understand and bear witness through his pictures to the emergence of new artistic practices that were reshaping the idea of space, material, object and environment. The book alternates images that have become part of our iconographic heritage (like the, incredibly dynamic series of pictures of Fontana slashing the canvas) and photos that are published here for the first time, along with some extremely rare ones in color (Mulas almost always used black-and-white film) of a vintage flavor. The result is an incredible gallery of people, disciplines, spaces and experiences that characterized the Italian cultural and creative scene in the sixties and seventies, captured by the privileged gaze of one of its greatest interpreters.