Italy has its first international vernacular photofestival. GU.PHO will be held on 9, 10, and 11 September at the Castello di Guiglia, near Modena: a three-days of study, exhibitions, talk and publishing event on the theme of vernacular photography.
The Studio Parisio, today Archivio Parisio – located in Piazza Plebiscito inside the arcade of San Francesco di Paola and in front of the Royal Palace – was the most important photographic studio in Naples in the interwar period and it still has the studio, some equipment and the space dedicated to the exhibitions.
The World Press Photo, the most prestigious photojournalism contest in the world, has significantly revisited their method of selecting and awarding the works they receive every year from all over the globe.
A portrait of Eric Ghysels, founder and director of 5 Continents Editions, one of the most fascinating and peculiar characters of the contemporary Italian publishing scene.
The photographic archive of the Turin Museums Foundation, which holds about four hundred thousand phototypes ranging from Nineteenth century to the present day.
The Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD) was founded in 1975 when all the production of two historical institutes flew into it: the National Photographic Cabinet (GFN), founded in 1895 by Giovanni Gargiolli, and the National Aerial Photo Library, founded in 1958. In recent years, the Institute’s interest has also turned to contemporary photography with the acquisition of archival copies of authorial photographic projects.
Photolux Magazine’s journey through Italian photographic archives starts from the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione in Parma, one of the first public institutions to deal competently with photography and today an efficient multifunctional space dedicated to culture and communication. It all began in the 1960s, thanks to Carlo Arturo Quintavalle and a trip to the United States.
We trace the history of the father of Polaroid: defined as the last of the great geniuses for his innovative scientific discoveries, gifted with artistic sensitivity and ingenuity, Land completely revolutionised the concept of photography. And not only.
“We must be grateful to Paul Fusco for his determination to put us in front of what was done to cause suffering to all victims of injustice and wars, universally and across borders”. In memory of the great American photographer, who died in July 2020, and his work: a powerful, tragic, authentic document.
Who are the new Magnum Photos “Nominees” this year? A quick look at the work and style of the five new arrivals at the historic photojournalistic agency.
We decided to try, with this editorial, to trace an original narrative inspired by a famous surrealist practice: a twine of words and images of different authors, that give us back a maybe unlikely, certainly unconventional and free, vision of a moment that will remain – and must remain – in our collective memory for a long time.
Cortona On The Move launch a brand new online platform: The Covid-19 Visual Project is an online archive, a memorial to restore the deeper meaning, the socio-anthropological values of what is happening.
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