In 1978, Franco Fontana's book Skyline helped pave the way for the new Italian photography with its radicalism and typically photographic approach. This book, produced in a very simple manner, without excessive graphic pretensions, presenting one photograph per page, was the culmination of a work in full maturity, freed from all the tics in vogue in photographic circles, advertising or conventional photojournalism. Skyline doesn't praise any city or local production; it's a work closed in on itself. Starting from tangible reality, in this case the landscape, and the horizon, he excludes all superfluous elements to preserve the essential, the exaltation of shapes and colors. Fontana codifies his familiar landscapes and unknown expanses in such a way that signs, space, form and color become the sole elements of the image. With Skyline, before Luigi Ghirri's famous book Kodachrome and six years before Viaggio in Italia, Franco Fontana was one of the first to question the linguistic possibilities of the chromatic process and the aesthetic characteristics of photography, personally reinterpreting the world around him while initiating a new reading of the Italian landscape. This book is based on the original Italian edition and softcover, both in terms of format and presentation and the number of photographs set by Paola and Luigi Ghirri. To improve quality, the photogravure has been reworked from the slides.