Opening Up

The Search for Intimate Love

Photography by Victor Gagliardi

Exploring the relationship between lovers,
their parents and what is passed on.

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Truly intimate, sometimes sad, and always beautiful,
this hardcover book is an exploration of different kinds of love.
Through color photography carefully paired with passages, poems and quotes,
photographer Victor Gagliardi gives us a portrait of love in all its
passion and wonder, chaos and confusion, risk and redemption.
Signed by the photographer and printed in Italy..

Opening Up—The Search For Intimate Love
with 95 new photographs illustrating insightful quotes from renowned
writers, poets, musicians and therapists along with thoughts
and passages written by Victor Gagliardi.

The book is offered in three beautiful European fabrics,
with an enigmatic image of a heart, that invites the reader to open up.

Opening Up—The Search For Intimate Love
is a 200 page hardcover, sized at 11“ X 12”.
Printed in Verona, Italy by Editoriale Bortolazzi-Stei—
one of the finest bookmakers in the world.

An Italian hand-bound red leather, limited- edition is also available,
featuring a raised cover image and presented in a handmade paper box.

Cloth Suggested Retail Price $78
Leather Suggested Retail Price $300
ISBN: 978-0-9712687-9-1

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A sample of the photographs and text in Opening Up.