After the exhibition on Circus with photos by Massimo Siragusa, Florence's SpazioFoto is hosting a collective exhibition on a historical subject in September.

The exhibition belongs to a series of events aimed at rediscovering with a critical eye Italian photographers who worked in the period between 1945 and 1960 according to the principles and guiding lines mentioned by Alberto Lattuada, who is the author of a small book, with 26 photographs and a poem by Ernesto Treccani. Lattuada writes that he has tried to give a picture of the relationship existing between men and things… he photographed, in fact, people along the roads, men at work or reading poems, overcome men. All pictures communicate the desire for life, the need for love and hope. He is therefore the forerunner of those movies and novels that would lay the foundations of the Italian culture after the Second World War.

The exhibition includes 50 pictures by nine of the major exponents of the Neorealism in the Italian photography.

ARTISTS AND IMAGES

Federico Patellani, photographs taken in the days following the Liberation and the faces of Sardinia's miners in 1950;

Tino Petrelli, the story of Africo, a village in Calabria;

Piero Donzelli, homely gestures of the everyday life and open spaces in the Po Valley landscape;

Mario De Biasi, people crowding together and the space of big towns;

Franco Pinna, rural landscape with peasant and shepherds in Southern Italy;

Enrico Pasquali, the odyssey of rice weeders and labourers in Lower Emilia;

Nino Migliori, life in the small villages of the Italian province;

Mario Giacomelli, the innovative sequences of "Scanno" and "Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi" by Pavese;

Enzo Sellerio, the Palermo of the '60s in the new political climate