Alinari – History of an Archive
Going through the history of the famous photographic Italian archive: a heritage of over five million images that is preparing to embark on a new journey, this time public, towards its enhancement and conservation.
Visual Culture
Photorock – A journey through album covers
Photography meets rock music: the greatest “photographers at 33 rpm” and the covers which made the history.
The human body in contemporary photography
What idea has the XXI century of the body and how is it reflected in current photographic works? The curator Nathalie Herscdorfer collected in a book 360 sintense and emblematic images, synthesis of the many ways in which we love, hate or transform our outer shell. And she told us about it in an interview.
If images disappear – Photographic memory, history of a collective recovery
In Livorno, at the biblioteca dei Bottini dell’Olio – The exhibition “Photographic memory | Story of a collective recovery”. On the night of 9 September 2017, a violent storm hit the city of Livorno, causing the heavy toll of nine victims and hundreds of flooded homes. One of these, is the home of Daniele Dainelli’s family.
The importance of the gaze
Photojournalism is a window open on the world, whose first duty is to inform about events, captured through a lucid eye, inspired by criteria of credibility, reliability, truthfulness. It is less free than higher forms of photography, but that is its nature. Or at least, it should be.
Scatta la Notizia
The project “Scatta la notizia” has had as its protagonists the students of two high schools in the Neapolitan territory, assisted by two exceptional teachers. For two years Photolux, with the support of Canon Italia and the collaboration of Neapolis.Art, has brought two great photographers, both winners of the World Press Photo, to accompany the kids in the world of visual communication.