Nicola Nunziata’s *Album* grows out of a residency fellowship he began in mid-2017 at the ICCD in Rome, one of Italy’s largest public institutes for photography conservation. There he worked through twentieth-century photographic albums, sorting the archive by categories that address both the object and the subject of the medium. The book that resulted is not a survey of pictures so much as an inquiry into what a photograph is when it is handled, stored, and bound.

Nunziata’s larger research concerns the materiality of photographs and photographic objecthood, and *Album* extends that inquiry into book form. Working closely with designer Hans Gremmen, he built a layered, kaleidoscopic volume in which, as the publisher puts it, a reader may lose their way among photography’s wonders. That description signals the book’s method: accumulation, juxtaposition, and an argument conducted through sequence and design rather than through a single authorial statement.

Essays by Antonella Frongia, Carlo Birrozzi, Francesca Fabiani, and Alessandro Coco accompany the images, and the publication was made in collaboration with the ICCD. The credits are complete: Nunziata is the photographer, while the four named contributors are authors of texts. For a collector, the book’s interest lies in how it treats the album as an object of study and as a form — an approach that places it alongside other artist’s books engaged with archives and photographic matter. The 2019 hardcover runs 192 pages at 17 by 24 centimeters.

The result rewards slow attention. It is a book about looking at photographs as things, and about the structures — albums, archives, categories — that shape what we see.