This volume looks at Italian news, history and habits from the post-war period to the present, through the eyes of photographers from the most important, historic and authoritative agency in the world, Magnum Photos, in honour of the seventieth anniversary of its founding.
Introduced by an homage to Henri Cartier-Bresson and his trip to Italy in the 1930s, this extraordinary parade of more than 200 images is a fascinating intertwining of wildly famous and lesser known photographs, depicting places recognised all over the world and ordinary citizens, the protagonists of Italian social, political and cultural events.
Turin, CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, March - May 2017
Milan, Museo Diocesano, May - July 2018
Contents
Magnum and Italy, or Magnum's Italy
Walter Guadagnini
The Thirties
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Forties
Robert Capa, David Seymour
The Fifties
Elliott Erwitt, René Burri, Herbert List
The Sixties
Thomas Hoepker, Erich Lessing, Bruno Barbey
The Seventies
Ferdinando Scianna, Leonard Freed, Raymond Depardon
The Eighties
Ferdinando Scianna, Martin Parr, Patrick Zachmann
The Nineties and the 2000
Peter Marlow, Alex Majoli, Thomas Dworzak, Chris Steele-Perkins, Paolo Pellegrin, Mark Power
Biographies
edited by Magnum Photos