Pier Paolo Pasolini

A highly significant, tragic, and legendary document of 20th-century avant-garde cinema and literature. This volume captures the absolute final photographs taken of the legendary Italian filmmaker, poet, and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini, shot by Dino Pedriali during the last two weeks of October 1975.

The photographs capture Pasolini in intense intimacy: writing at his desk in Chia, typing in Sabaudia, and, most famously, a series of vulnerable, unposed nudes captured through his bedroom window. This historic photographic session was a deliberate collaboration; Pasolini intended the raw, unedited images to serve as a visual extension of his literary genius and his final, controversial film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

In a tragic twist of fate, Pedriali had scheduled an appointment to show Pasolini the final prints on November 2, 1975—the exact day Pasolini’s brutally murdered body was discovered on the beach at Ostia. Published immediately following his death, this book stands as a raw, immediate monument to Pasolini’s life and a holy grail for collectors of European cinema history and fine art photography.