This volume is dedicated to the final period of activity of the artist Francesco Paolo Michetti, and in particular to the photographic work done by him as essential research in order to consolidate the realism of his paintings. Lively snaps of ‘bathers’ at the sea, movements of sailboats, pastures and trees in flower, are not only occasions in a photographic notebook, but are elements of a visual survey that is the fount of inspiration for new ‘viewpoints’ for the pictorial work. All this is analysed in the precious critical texts of this volume, enriched by an unpublished set of illustrations of paintings and photographs by Michetti.