 This participation presented Devalle in an international framework, putting him in contact with other artists experimenting with the manipulation of photography such as Robert Heinechen and John Baldessari.In 1975 the fashion images of the illustrated magazines were for the most part replaced by snapshots taken by himself or photographs of his family, of which photocopies were then made (that very same year, photocopying became a commercialised service in Italy).This latter work led him to use graphite and charcoal instead of the previous India ink-rotogravure combination.