True Fictions – At the edge of reality

Staged photography, a genre that has revolutionized the language of photography since the 1980s, is at the heart of the exhibition now open again to the public in Reggio Emilia. Over one hundred works that, through staging, parallel realities, inventions inspired by cinema, show that pivotal moment that opened the doors of art to photography.

A customized view camera

We had promised to visit the Gibellini Project in person, so we went to the company’s production site in Polinago, near Modena: we found an artisan workshop where, thanks to the most advanced technology, precision folding cameras are born, completely customizable.