The light of hope in the reportage by Alessandro Gandolfi
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
A child. With yellow shirt and vest also profiled of yellow, blue hat and two big eyes behind new lenses, those lenses that allow him to see his world. And then an old man who hides behind his ophthalmologists’ test glasses, the wonder of a view recovered. Andhō in Nepali means blind, and in rural
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The Cal in Milan
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
It is called The Cal, as if it were the one and only calendar in the world. Born in 1963 from a brilliant marketing operation of Pirelli UK which has transformed a gadget for truckers into a sought cult, Pirelli calendar is an object of desire – only a small number of powerful customers and
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The founders of the Magnum: photographers of war for peace
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
It is May 22nd, 1947: in the restaurant of the MoMA in New York Robert Capa, David Seymour “Chim”, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger founded a photo agency that takes its name from a bottle of champagne. Magnum is born and begins a history of photojournalism and photography which marks the twentieth century and continues
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The style between doors: re-opening the wardrobes of the Fondazione Magnani Rocca
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
What does it mean to open old wardrobes? It means to bring to light stories and history, especially when wardrobes and chests are the ones that from distant past preserve clothes and objects of a cultured family, fully integrated in the twentieth-century elite and in close contact with artists and poets, musicians and intellectuals. This
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Not only publisher. Corraini reveals in Parma
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Beyond the door pops the head of a giraffe that invites visitors to enter. Moreover, in the cozy rooms of Palazzo Pigorini in Parma runs a fun and exciting exhibition that combines important works of contemporary art illustrations, children’s games and educational corners. The protagonist is Corraini, historical Mantuan publisher – nay, “editorial workshop” –
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Shots from Andes: a Peruvian history of photography
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Cuzco and Arequipa, two Peruvian cities, two towns that in the late nineteenth century saw the flourishing of prestigious photographic studies from which came out fine and original shots. Now a selection of fifty photographs is on display at the Fondazione Fotografia in Modena, where the curator Jorge Villacorta proposes a journey into the extraordinary
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Irving Penn. Precious as platinum photos
Wednesday, 01 October 2014
For the first time, Palazzo Grassi/François Pinault Foundation offers a photography exhibition: after the exhibition focused on works from the Pinault collection – one of the most significant and influential collections of contemporary art in the world – the second floor of the historical Venetian palace is occupied by 130 shots of great beauty. Most
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Fermoeditore Photo Contest: the winners
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
We interviewed the winners of the first Fermoeditore’s photography contest. Here are their answers to the questions “where you took your photo? Is there any particular memories related to this image?” Domenico Guddo: in Cefalù, in Sicily. Fabrizio Ara: to the buildings at the abandoned mines of Montevecchio (Arbus); I love abandoned places, that I
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A life in black and white: Stanislao Farri
Wednesday, 04 June 2014
Stanislao Farri is on the threshold of ninety. He still has so much energy, so much desire to frame subjects that strike him and take photographs that, printed, draw lines and perspectives, depicting unusual and fascinating glimpses as the last project dedicated to avant-garde architecture in Reggio Emilia, one of Santiago Calatrava. The curves of
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A century of great photography: a superb exhibition in Reggio Emilia
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Alongside European Photography 2014 with an high-level proposal, this is the purpose of the exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg and by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia: it does not happen every day to be able to trace a century of photography through the images of the most important
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