"The Italians is an evocative collection of Barbey’s modern Commedia dell’arte of beggars, priests, nuns, carabinieri, prostitutes and mafiosi. Archetypal figures whose exotic charms helped to make the films of Pasolini, Visconti and Fellini so popular. The resulting images were published into a book that stands as a testament to the life and times of Italy in the 1960s."
