Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Neorealismo: Postwar Photography in Italy

Le Invasate, Galatina 1954 Chiara Samugheo... Le Invasate, Galatina 1954 (Vintage gelatin silver, printed 1954). From the exhibition Neorealismo: Postwar Photography in Italy at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, NY. "...the first exhibition outside of Europe that surveys Neorealismo, Italian postwar photography. The exhibition features over 90 black and white prints by 19 Italian photographers working from the 1940s through the 1960s. Their work shares the concerns, innovations, and goals of Italian Neorealist cinema."