Photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin's long career of documenting insane asylums, the Roma people, labor, women's conditions, portraits, Milan and his "photographer origins" in Venice are all part of an exhibition that opens tomorrow in the Italian capital.
True Photography will be at Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
Some of the 250 photos have never before been exhibited and 24 of his most famous have been printed in a large format and are accompanied by comments by friends, artists, directors and writers such as Marco Bellocchio, Carlo Verdone, Maurizio Maggiani, Renzo Piano, Vittorio Gregotti, Jannis Kounellis and his fellow photographers Ferdinando Scianna and Sebastiao Salgado. "I was surprised to see the comments by Renzo Piano, who is a close friend, as well as by Bellocchio and Verdone, who I didn't know even knew my photographs. I am flattered by this popularity. It is also recognition for photography itself, which is now esteemed in both intellectual and working class spheres," Berengo Gardin told ANSA. The exhibition will be open to the public until August 28 and was curated by Alessandra Mammì and Alessandra Mauro. There are several intertwining sections running through periods from 1954 to 2015 that depict Italian history. When asked the reason behind the name of the exhibition, Berengo Gardin said that True Photography had been decided on since the photos have "not been manipulated or tampered with by Photoshop, which I am a huge enemy of. I would prohibit it by law".
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