New York. 50 years of Italian history as seen through the images captured by 25 famous photographers. The exhibition “Facing the Camera”, curated by M. Delogu, will be inaugurated on March 28th at the Italian Institute of Culture in New York. The exhibition begins with a group portrait taken in Portella della Ginestra by Fausto Giaccone twenty years after the horrible massacre. Then follows an image of Emilio Tremolada (engaged alongside Franco Basaglia in the battle for the abolition of mental hospitals), the work of Lisetta Carmi on “transvestites”, and the self-portraits of Luigi di Sarro. In the 1980s the tone became more intimate with photographs of the “Australian of Tuscany” Stephen Roach – part of the famous series that he dedicated to his wife Fabrizia, and the portraits of George Tatge’s neighbours in Umbria. Since the 1990s the photographic portrait has become more and more of a face to face confrontation: the photographer and his subject work together for the final image, using signs, backgrounds, and landscapes. This is the case for the portraits of Guido Guidi, and for cardinals, farmers, and Roma people by Marco Delogu, where the attention for the portrayed person’s gaze relegates the environment to the background. (9Colonne)
