La Casa Dell’Audiofilo. Music. Sound. Image. The book brings together these three essential aspects of our lives thanks to the stories of thirty audiophiles from all over Italy who trace their quest for sonic perfection.
They all began with a great passion: as children, they discovered high fidelity and with it a world of tubes, cables, loudspeakers, headphones, diodes, famous systems, and craftsmanship. A world that led them to create a very personal space in their own home where they could listen to music in its purest form. In these spaces, not only the ear but also the eye enjoys every detail, so much so that the author, a long-time photographer, and audiophile, could not resist digging between the components of each system with his lens to give us hundreds of shots to accompany these stories. A journey where you will experience the emotions of high-quality sound in a truly magical way.
Claudio Cricca from Bologna began studying photography in 1994 and attended photojournalism courses in Italy and the United States. In 2004, images of Dozza’s work, Wall Painting, were among the winners of the Humanity Photo Awards, and in 2006 the project “Baby Think It Over” won the same competition. In 2008, his first book “Faceless” was published, a ten-year body of work on psychiatric hospitals in Italy, which won the Gold Award of Excellence at the Edward Hopper Museum”s Biennial Juried Photography Show” (New York). His photographs are in the collection of the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, USA, and the Museum Dr. Guislain in Ghent, Belgium. His work has appeared in: “The New York Times”, “National Geographic Italia”, “National Geographic Traveler”, “The Herald Tribune”, “Geo Germany”, “Le Monde2”, “New Scientist”, “L’Espresso”, “Foto 8”, “D di Repubblica”, “IO Donna”, “GQ”, “Internazionale”, “USA Today”, “Economy”.