Italian neo-realism in the Center of Photography Lumiere brothers
 

Yesterday opened a remarkable exhibition of Italian photography. In Moscow, brought the work of so-called group of Friulian new photo (GFNF acronym in Italian), which was founded in 1955 in the Friuli region of northern Italy. The photos were taken in the postwar period, 1945-1965, and show everyday life in Italy, the lives of ordinary people.
Photographers call themselves neo-realists, rejected the sugary chocolate-box images, and aim were realism and documentary.
It reminded me somewhat of the sixties pictures of the Soviet time, roughly the same feelings and thoughts were with the younger generation of photographers - fewer productions, more ease.

The exhibition was opened by the Italian Ambassador to Russia and director of the Italian Institute of Culture. Photographs was taken from the Center for research and archival photographs in Italy over the selection of photos to show work about a year.

In the picture:
2 - Natalia Grigorieva (director), a translator, Italian Ambassador to Russia, Antonio Zanardi Landi and director of the Italian Cultural Institute Adriano Del Asta.
3 - "The Italian mission"
4 - Adriano Del Asta spoke without an interpreter, in good Russian, with a slight accent, read his speech. I liked a lot of clever ideas expressed his vision of photography.
Unpleasant truth was the moment when, during his speech about not listening to the public, and sipping wine, everyone was talking about something else, and this at a time when he spoke about the culture of Italy and Russia, which have much in common " despite the fact that our peoples different languages, but we have - a culture and so on. "

Read about the exhibition here
http://artinvestment.ru/news/exhibit...m_lumiere.html

In this report, the work that I liked best :
view of sea wolf (1) and cantor (2), childlike ( 3,4,6 ) , graphically nets (7).
8 photos - from the series " Man, woman , love " Mario Giacomelli , this is the 60s , when the group expanded the boundaries of understanding of neorealism .
The last photo is absolutely incomprehensible , but catchy , I do not know why.

The exhibition traveled to France, the United States, Italy, and now the exhibition (127 works) was brought to Moscow.
This project covers the year of Italy in Russia.


Signatures in the photos.

That's all the pictures, the exhibition will run until February 26.

At the last count - themselves photographers Friulian group.