Novecento, la necessità della fotografia
The new production devoted to the city of Rome, commissioned every year by the Festival to an internationally famous photographer, this year will involve Martin Parr and presents the artist's works on tourism in Rome.
A cross-section of private stories as seen by great 20th century photographers, who captured the poetry of carefree moments, the chaos of crowded beaches, but also the search for freedom from everyday realities.
The 4th edition of the review, FotoGrafia - Festival Internazionale di Roma, organized by the Comune di Roma.
Martin Parr - Tutta Roma
curated by Marco Delogu
After Josef Koudelka, Olivo Barbieri and Anders Petersen, the new production devoted to the city of Rome, commissioned every year by the Festival to an internationally famous photographer, this year will involve Martin Parr.
This collaboration project saw the light in 2004 following a meeting with the British artist at the Arles Festival, where he was Art director for that year’s edition, and presents the artist's works - began last Spring - on tourism in Rome.
In "Tutta Roma" Parr casts his amused and baroque gaze on the throngs of tourists which daily invade the Italian capital.
Il secolo delle vacanze
curated by Laura Serani
Going on holiday, the target of Goldoni's satire addressed against the ambitious 18th century bourgeoisie, remained the privilege of the upper classes until the early 20th century, when during the Thirties "paid holidays" became a worker's right. A escape, a convention or a social conquest, since then holidays have marked the summer and winter season and migrations in all western societies.
This exhibition portrays a cross-section of private 20th century stories and also revisits the history and evolution of photography. While photographs by Lartigue in Biarritz re-echo Proustian universes, soon a more humanist photography became established, paying attention to people, with great maestros such as Henri Cartier Bresson, who captured all the simplicity and poetry of carefree moments; Robert Capa, who with irony and a critical eye portrayed the elegant crowds at the races; and then also Doisneau, Ronis, Boubat, Dieuziade.
Then came the years of collective summer exoduses and crowded beaches; this was the beginning of mass tourism in search of exoticism and novelties. Martin Parr was to be the perfect reporter of these times of ours that remind one of Goldoni's "pining". Vacations are however also an opportunity for breaking with daily reality in search of freedom, which might lead to the top of Dolores Marat's hills, to forgetting a pram on the beach as portrayed by Paul den Hollander, to breathe the open spaces of beaches shown by Harry Gruyaert, to mingle with the improbable mélange of human beings on a beach in Thailand as seen by Francesco Jodice; to follow Max Pam's itineraries in his maps and Ghirri's imagination in his atlases.
Beyond the fashions and ways of occupying space that transform the many destinations, in the end it is landscapes - as a metaphor and reflection of an absolute ideal - that impose their presence and mark the rhythm of this exhibition. An invitation to inner travel and to release one's imagination.
Pinault Foundation presents photos coming from Fnac Collection:
Lucien Aigner, David Armstrong, Olivo Barbieri, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Edouard Boubat, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Clark & Pougnaud, Pierre Crié, Thibaut Cuisset, Antoine D'Agata, Lynn Davis, Carl De Keyzer, Lionel Delevigne, John Demos, Paul Den Hollander, Raymond Depardon, Jean Luc Deru, Xavier Desmier, Claude Dityvon, Elliott Erwitt, Wilfrid Estève, Bernard Faucon, Philippe Gabel, Luigi Ghirri, Lauren Greenfield, Harry Gruyaert, Philippe Halsman, Caroline Hayeur, Lucien Hervé, Abdel Hadi Hisham, David Hurn, Carlo Iavicoli, Michel Jaget, Francesco Jodice, Mimmo Jodice, William Klein, Joseph Koudelka, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, François Le Diascorn, Frédéric Lebain, Cheyco Leidmann, Arnaud Lesage, Jon Lewis, Dolorès Marat, Didier Massard, Sarah Moon, Martin Munkacsi, Claude Nori, Françoise Nunez, Max Pam, Martin Parr, Krzysztof Pawela, Bernard Plossu, Marc Riboud, Willy Ronis, Philippe Salaün, Philippe Schuller, Michel Séméniako, David Seymour, Patrick Taberna, André Nonga Tassembédo, Jean Luc Thaly, Jean-Marc Tingaud, Robert Van Der Hilst, Massimo Vitali, Wim Wenders, David Williams, Baron Wolman, and anonymous authors.
