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When Fedrico Fellini first began shooting his film in the Via Veneto, he probably never imagined that he would create a new era in fashion and in world cinema. At the end of the 50s, Rome had become a crossroads, witnessing the transit of international stars, famous singers, actors, emerging stars, starlets, the sex symbol industry, politicians, princes, princesses and billionaires. With these players, Italian nights became the symbol of a "sweet and lazy" way of life, made up of fashion and gossip, paparazzi and tabloid scandal, relationships and forbidden love. From Rome to Portofino, from Capri to Venice, the Italian jet set was the epitome of this phenomenon. A new photographic book tells the story of those Italian years and its unforgettable icons, from Fellini to Anita Ekberg, Ava Gardner, Liz Taylor, Brigitte Bardot and Soraya. Documenting, amongst other things, striptease and elite parties, the book includes 600 rare images rediscovered and selected from Scalarchives in Italy and Europe to accompany the text by Italian journalist Marco Gasparini.

When Robert Capa snapped the photo of the dying militiaman during the Spanish Civil War it seemed the ideal goal of every journalist on the frontline: to tell the story of death in battle. But this work actually began nearly a century before with photos shot by Fenton in the Crimea and Brady during the American Civil War. A book illustrated with over 600 images tells the history of war reporting from it’s origins to the bombing of Libya in 2011. Unique images of American reporters in WWI and WWII, the German soldier photographers from Pk, the Italians from the Luce Archive and the French journalists. The reportage in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Africa, and the protagonists of what eventually became a real journalistic specialization with its stories, its tragedies and its fallen. A book about the war seen from a new and unexpected point of view, a series of historical photographic scoops, and a selection of rare images on the conflicts of the last one hundred and fifty years selected by the staff of Scalarchives and narrated by its director, the journalist and former reporter Claudio Razeto.

This book traces the history of fashion photography from its origins. Approximately 500 illustrations chart its birth and development in the 1930s and 1940s, its rebirth in the period following the Second World War, British Style in the Sixties, then the Seventies and Eighties, right up to the present day. The volume concludes with an index of photographers.

The story and history of the development of Graphic arts from the end of the 19th century through to its many applications in film, animation and forms of media . Many artists chose graphic production. Among them are Magritte, Rodcenko and Warhol. A perfect necessity for the student of graphic arts.

The Mafia is a criminal phenomenon that has inspired historical books, novels and movies, but is here told in a book of images containing a rare selection of over 600 photographs, newspaper pages and prints. The Mafia Worldwide, from Sicily to the United States of America and from South America to the Far East shown through places, personalities, crimes, events, trials, policemen, politicians and magistrates. From Al Capone to Joe Petrosino, from Toto Riina to the Colombian drug trafficking gang and the Hong Kong crime lords. From the turn of the century to the present day, the chronicle, written by Italian journalist Marco Gasparini, supported by a rich collection of images from Scalarchives and partners, will tell the true and ultimate illustrated story of the World Mafia.

This volume presents a visual summary of the complex artistic phenomenon known as Mannerism. From its origins in Florence in the second decade of the sixteenth century in the wake of the great Renaissance tradition, to its gradual establishment in Rome and other Italian and European cities. Marked by a subversion of traditional canons, gaining expression in often bizarre and experimental images, Mannerism was not widespread either internationally or in Italy, where it suffered a setback following new decrees concerning art established by the Council of Trent in 1563. The volume concludes with an index of artists, biographies of leading artists and a map showing the main artistic centres.