The Credito Valtellinese Gallery, the Centre Culturel Français de Milan and the Fnac present

The Fnac Collection
Photography, half historical and half poetic

About 400 photographs will be exhibited in Milan from March 21st to May 5th. The exhibition will be hosted at the Credito Valtellinese Gallery, the Centre Culturel Français Gallery and the Fnac Gallery.

The photographs are part of the Fnac Collection, which includes more than one thousand original prints acquired from exhibitions that the Fnac has been mounting and hosting in its circuit of art galleries over the last thirty years.

Part of a calendar that is always offering a wide and much varied range of events, the Fnac collection - which is steadily being enriched with new pieces - takes a peculiar look at contemporary photography.

From the monographs of great photographers such as Man Ray, Brassaï, Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Willy Ronis, through the current trends in the works by Raymond Depardon, William Klein, Max Pam, Nick Waplington, including also the beginners Michael Ackerman, Francesco Jodice, Klavdij Sluban…

Since it was founded in Paris in 1954, the Fnac has always been playing a great cultural role in organising meetings with artists, authors and the great public. So, it has considerably helped photography spread in France.

Each of the Fnac stores has a stand for the presentation of exhibitions, that's why the Fnac is also regarded as a unique place where the public and the photographers can meet and exchange ideas.

With 83 galleries in Europe, Brazil and Taiwan, the Fnac is really the only place of its kind in the world.

A book called La fotografia tra storia e poesia published by Mazzotta with texts by Giovanna Calvenzi, Laura Serani and Dominique Stella is also presented in this exhibition, which has been mounted by Laura Serani (Fnac photo galleries Director) and Dominique Stella.

List of the photographers:

Abbas, Abbé Pierre, Berenice Abbott, Lucien Aigner, Barbara Alper, David Amstrong, Jean-François André, Daoud Aoulad-Syad, Eve Arnold, Eugène Atget, Jane Atwood, Sid Avery, Jose Azel, Alioune Ba, David Bailey, Am Bar, Daniel Barraco, Gabriele Basilico, Claude Batho, Catherine Baumann, Allard Bauret, Jean-François Bauret, Evgen Bavcar, Pascal Benoit, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Jerry Berndt, Erwin Blumenfeld, Harm Botman, Machiel Botman, Edouard Boubat, Nabil Boutros, Emanuel Bovet, Brassaï, Roland Briens, Yul Brynner, David Burnett, René Burri, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gérard Castello-Lopes, Jean Charbonnier, Florence Chevalier, Roman Cieslewicz, Henry Clarke, Lucien Clergue, Anton Corbijn, Jean-Claude Coutausse, Charlelie Couture, Thibault Cuisset, Antoine D'Agata, Denis Dailleux, Alexandra David-Neal, Bruce Davidson, Lynn Davis, Carl De Keyser, Hollander Den, Raymond Depardon, Mody Diallo, Philip-Lorca Dicorcia, Jean Dieuzaide, Lutz Dille, Alain Dister, Robert Doisneau, Suzanne Dopelt, Kamel Dridi, Stéphane Duroy, Elaine Ellman, Elliott Erwitt, Bernard Fau, Bernard Faucon, Arabe Fond, Franco Fontana, Joan Fontcuberta, Samuel Fosso, Martine Franck, Stuart Franklin, Leonard Freed, Gisèle Freund, Hideki Fujii, Flor Garduno, Claude Gassian, Guillaume Geneste, Luigi Ghirri, Mario Giacomelli, Ralph Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Jean-Pierre Gilson, Allen Ginsberg, Gladys, Hervé Gloaguen, Gianfranco Gorgoni, Arlene Gottfried, Stanley Greene, Hubert Grooteclaes, Harry Gruyaert, Halsmann, Jill Hartley, Erich Hartmann, Hassia, Louis Held, Hergo, Lucien Herve, P. Horst, Franck Horvat, Eikoh Hosoë, Pierre Houcmant, Carlo Iavicoli, Irina Ionesco, Izis, Michel Jaget, Frédéric Janisset, Jan Janssis, Ann Jarret, Bruno Jarret, Francesco Jodice, Mimmo Jodice, Arnault Joubin, Racine Keita, Michael Kenna, Kertesz, William Klein, François Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Adama Kouyate, Karl Kugel, Karl Lagerfeld, Xavier Lambours, Sergio Larrain, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Guy Le Querrec, Lehnert, Annie Leibovitz, Cheyco Leidmann, Herman Leonard, Florence Leroy, Jon Lewis, Dominique Lhoste, Pier Luigi, Pascal Maitre, Man Ray, Manoocher, Dolores Marat, Christa Mayer, Willy Maywald, Pierrot Men, Mercier, Olivier Meriel, Duane Michals, Roland Michaud, Léo Mirkine, Tina Modotti, Arman Molavi, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Laurent Monlau, Laurent Monlaü, Sarah Moon, Inge Morath, Eve Morcrette, Yan Morvan, Martin Munckacsi, Dominique Nabokov, Janine Niepce, Paulo Nozolino, Françoise Nunez, Lutfi Özkök, François Pain, Max Pam, Martin Parr, Arturo Patten, Krzysztof Pawella, Gilles Perrin, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Bernard Plossu, Chrys Plytas, Gilles-Henri Polge, Clark Pougnaud, Krzysztof Pruszkowski, Jaydie Putterman, Joan Rabascall, Thierry Rajic, Alon Reininger, Reza, Marc Riboud, George Rodger, Gérard Rondeau, Willy Ronis, Eva Rubinstein, Paola Salerno, Sebastião Salgado, Lise Sarfati, Jan Saudek, Ferdinando Scianna, Michel Semeniako, David Seymour, Malick Sidibe, Hans Silvester, Klavdij Sluban, Ingallil Snitt, Aldo Soares, Chris Steele-Perkins, Galith Sultan, Maurice Tabard, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Giovanni Tavano, Pierre Terrasson, Anne Testut, Larry Towell, Marc Tulane, Peter Turnley, Alain Turpault, Shoji Ueda, Der Van, Alberto Venzago, Denis Vicherat, Marie-Pierre Vincent, Christian Vogt, Martine Voyeux, Nick Waplington, Sabine Weiss, Wim Wenders, David Williams, Neil Winokur, Joël-Peter Witkin, David Wojnarowicz, Baron Wolman, Patrick Zachmann, Franco Zecchin, Sophie Zenon, Guillaume Zuilli.