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NEOREALIST ECHOES IN POST-WAR ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
From: 25-07-2012 To: 25-07-2012LOCATION:
Until 30 September 2012
The NEOREALIST ECHOES IN POST-WAR ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition opened in July in the enchanting setting of Palazzo Grimani in Venice’s Campo Santa Maria Formosa. It offers a selection of 63 images from the Historical Archives of the La Gondola Photographic Club, which received an important recognition in 2010: the Special Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Venice declared the 5316 photographs preserved in the Archives of the famous Venetian Club of exceptional historical and artistic interest. La Gondola was founded as an association
in 1948 and has seen photographers of the stature of Gianni Berengo Gardin, Fulvio Roiter, Elio Ciol and many others alternate and confront each other.
The exhibition offers an effective framework for the period between the early 1950s, when the neorealist parable was already being shown in fresco costumes in cinemas, up to the 1960s and beyond, during which period Italian photography abandoned research of a purely formal nature to investigate the reality of the country, widely renewing its expressive possibilities.