Events for 22 May 2019

The history of the ONU (and the world) in the most beautiful images of the United Nations Photo Library.

Italian preview of the new edition of Wildlife Photographer of the year, prestigious annual award dedicated to nature photography and promoted by the Natural History Museum, London.

The first major Luigi Ghirri retrospective to go on show outside the artist’s native Italy, the focus of the exhibition rests on the 1970s, a key period where conceptual art is affirmed and take shapes a new face of italian territory.

A journey in the work of the Sicilian photojournalist, Magnum photographer since 1982, in the most suitable setting: "his" Palermo. the two hundred black and white photographs of different format that tell about their career, through a storytelling divided into chapters.

The Winterthur Photomuseum dedicate a monographic exhibition to the American photographer Anne Collier (b. 1970).

The first great Italian retrospective dedicated to the famous photographer, the first woman who succeeded, in 1953, to enter the exclusive sphere of the Magnum Photos Agency.

A solo exhibition of one of the most influential Chinese artists of his generation, who died tragically at the age of 29. In a repressive political context, he investigated themes such as eroticism and identity, expressing a desire for creative freedom, in an almost carefree way.

People are awesome, especially if they are captured from the lens of Martin Parr.

The love for letterature according to Steve McCurry. Photographs "captured" in over 40 years of career in the most different contexts, from streets to markets, from place of worship to place of war, from Cuba to Italy, from India to Afghanistan.

Bologna host a retrospective (101 images) dedicated to one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century: Lee Miller.

‘I’m in love, I’m all shook up’. What better way to describe German photo artist Thomas Kellner’s relationship with America than through the words of Rock and Roll legend Elvis Presley.

"Photography as a choice of life" is the title of the exhibition that retraces the photographic journey of one of the most relevant Italian photographers: Letizia Battaglia.

Un atleta leggendario, un fuoriclasse inarrivabile del pugilato, una grande personalità che ha scavalcato i confini del ring per entrare nel mito: Muhammad Alì, nato Cassius Clay, scomparso nel 2016, te volte campione del mondo dei pesi massimi. L’atleta, l’uomo e il personaggio sono raccontati al PAN, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, in una mostra che riassume in 100 scatti gesta sportive e momenti intimi di un eroe moderno.

A great retrospective that retraces the forty-years long friendship between the pop rock icon David Bowie and the master of photography Masayoshi Sukita.

The exhibition revolve around a middle section: photographs of Rome that Basilico shoot from the same point of views of some famous views of the great Venetian etcher.

Almost half a century of events, news and history, told through 240 images taken by the photographers of what was for a long time the most important Italian photojournalistic agency, in the period between 1939 and 1981, the year of the death of its founder, Vincenzo Carrese.

La sensibilità di 3 grandi fotografi - Olivo Barbieri, Paola De Pietri, Petra Noordkamp - per raccontare il territorio marchigiano ferito dal sisma del 2016. Una committenza promossa dalla Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio delle Marche che mostra rovine di edifici, case, monumenti, ma anche la narrazione per immagini delle relazioni tra le persone e il territorio, sulle tracce di una memoria ferita.

The borders between photography and performance among the individual and the world disappear. The Chinese artist Liu Bolin (1973), internationally known for his original works and his mimetic abilities: thanks to a careful body painting, portrays himself integrating perfectly with the background of his works, almost disappearing. 

f dignity can be lost in extreme situations, it is also true that the war is "Shit" and that the title of the exhibition is more than allusive: " There is no dignity in war, no modesty either ".

Dedicata agli amanti del jazz, la mostra parigina, alla Mandarine Gallery, presenta una raccolta di suggestive fotografie, pubblicate nel corso degl anni dalla storica rivista francese Jazz Magazine, che nel 2019 compie 65 anni.

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