Book of the month
Seventies Motor Racing
FRANCO LINI with DOUG NYE, Palawan Press, £400
This is 1970s motor racing through the eyes (and lenses) of photojournalist Franco Lini. The Italian, who died in 1996, was ever-present at the higher echelons of the sport and highly skilled. His work is accompanied by the words of British doyen Doug Nye who knew the dapper Montovan Lini from the mid-1960s.
The book is large-format (300x300mm), printed on thick 170gsm paper and, after a brief introduction by Nye and profile of Lini by Gianni Cencelleri, is tackled year by year, each with an overview and some cultural touchpoints before piling into the photos and their lengthy, highly detailed captions. And it is all about those 480 pictures, which are reproduced beautifully and given the space they richly deserve across 432 pages. If you ever doubt the value of this, check out the picture of Emerson
