"Like children who do not yet know how to speak, and who, when searching for or wanting something, express themselves by drawing near to it, touching it, smelling it, or pointing at it with a thousand different gestures—writes Ugo Mulas of his work—so too the photographer, while working, moves around the subject of his discussion, examines it, considers it, touches it, shifts it, alters its position and light. And when he finally decides to capture it by photographing it, he will have expressed only a portion of his thought... What truly matters is not so much the privileged moment, but rather identifying one's own reality, after which all moments are more or less equivalent. Once one's territory is defined, we can once again witness the miracle of 'images that create themselves,' because at that point the photographer must transform into an operator, reducing his intervention to instrumental operations. It is the photographer's task to identify his reality, and the camera's to record it in its totality."

More than forty years after its first edition, this volume presents once again the work and reflection of one of the great photographers of our time, remaining an essential encounter for anyone interested in an expressive medium so rich in potential.