ABOUT

Genova 1981-1983 is the first monograph by Italian photographer Antonio Amato. Images guide us through the Genoa punk scene of those years, telling about attitude, habits and gestures of people who have been part and created the scene. “..the Genoese scene was founded in 1980 and in 1981 it was already drammaticaly different: first, each of us was punk on his own account, then we started to meet in the street and recognize each other.”

Post Brigate Rosse, post terrorism, post ’77 movement Genoa, a city where new generation, who no longer identified themselves into the Communism of their fathers, where the road is a place of socialization and designated to big laboring march protests but also a space for clash and guerrilla. This was the city context between 1978-1979 – and as it happened to many girls and boys in the whole peninsula, thanks to the RAI television programmes broadcasted at the end of ’77 – where the punk made its entrance: “..years, in short, where everything happened in Genoa even if there are practically no testimonies of that scene which was so alive”.