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Diamond Dogs, Officina post industriale,1984—1987 Napoli, probes the flooded imagery of Italian underground, talking about Naples and specifically about a unique and symbolic place: the Diamond Dogs.

The volume reproduces, for the first time, the complete archive of Neapolitan photographer Toty Ruggeri who followed the local stage in his activities from 1984 to 1987. While the attention of television and newspapers was focused on urban disrepair (decline) and on the social ills of the city, dozens of artists of all types and discipline (musicians, painters, writers, poets, actors and directors) were starting the new cultural rebirth of Naples. The Diamond Dogs was their hangout, a place that welcomed the needs of that generation, enhancing them and taking care of them, hosting live concerts, performances and experimental theater performances, becoming the focal point of Naples’ underground and new artistic avant-garde of the city after the 1980 earthquake.