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GOLDBERG VICKY
LA STRADA

Format Hardback | 200 pages
Publisher Damiani
First Edition 2006
Italian and English language


La Strada captures the life and drama of Italy's streets from World War II through the 1970s. Its exquisite photographs, made by some of the most deeply skilled artists of the mid-twentieth century, are imbued with the essence of Neo-Realism, the aesthetic that produced some of the most influential Italian film and literature of the same era. The American gallerist and curator Keith de Lellis's selection of more than 200 pictures, some previously unpublished, by more than 60 masters reveals the touching, the humorous, and the tragic in the day-to-day lives of the Italian people, liberated from the grips of Fascism. A treasure trove, and a case for the continuing recognition of this inspired group of picture-makers.

"Even if the photographers knew very well that they were about to rewrite the chronicle of Italian photography, they may not have been so aware that they were also about to rewrite the history of their country, as it will unfold in its daily grind." Vicky Goldberg

In the volume appear among others Mario De Biasi, Nino Migliori, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Mario Giacomelli and a large group of little-known or unknown photographers whose shots this book shows for the first time. 

The photography of Mussolini's years made up of "beautiful children, swans and old peasants" or that still subordinated to the figurative arts definitively faded, post-war Italian photographers move in a country semi-destroyed by bombs, politically divided; a land still peasant and poorly industrialized. From the north to the south of the country, the portrayed subject is always the road, which in its natural theatricality and variety of landscapes offers an almost inexhaustible series of themes and situations. There are many languages used in the composition of the images. They range from a neorealist sensibility (these were the years of the cinematographic poetics elaborated by Rossellini, Zavattini and De Sica) to a reiterated attendance of the portrait, which can sometimes take on openly expressionist tones (Zovetti, M. Cattaneo). Then there is an aesthetic research that goes to the limits of the figurative: passers-by and means of transport move on roads made of paving stones, cobblestones, cobblestones and cobblestones that draw geometries with a metaphysical flavor (Ranati, Spadoni, Crepaz, Ronconi, Bornaccini) . Also strong is the use of the panoramic view to record large portions of the crowd and trajectories of movement. The shot from above (Migliori), on the other hand, reveals the urban places in a hitherto unedited spatiality.

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