Photographing Italy - In Search of a New Realism, Part #4
The fourth presentation in this series commissioned by the Italian Institute of Culture in Chicago focuses on the emergence of photography as a true artform during the second half of the last century. From Oliviero Toscani’s controversial campaigns for United Colors of Benetton to Luigi Ghirri’s reconfiguration of the natural landscape as memory and experience, many contemporary Italian photographers have rejected the stereotyping images of a romanticized Italy that flood the global imagination.
It is in this context that, among others, contemporary Italian photographers like Massimo Vitali, Paola di Bello, Silvia Camporesi, and Vittore Fossati conduct intimate and innovative investigations of fragmented social realities and environmental landscapes that make up an ever-changing Italy.