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Federico Garolla. Gente d'Italia. Fotografie 1948-1968
About 100 black-and-white photographs of postwar Italy and the economic miracle, with portraits of Guttuso, Campigli, Elsa Morante and Ungaretti.
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Preview: written before the show opened
Ferragosto, 1952, on a platform at Milan's station. Families with suitcases line one side under the iron arches. On the other side a girl sits alone on her case, facing the light at the end of the shed. Above the August crowd hangs a giant ad for panettoni. Milan has been pushing panettone in August since at least 1952.
That picture is one of about 100 black-and-white photographs Garolla took across Italy between 1948 and 1968, as the country rebuilt and headed into the economic boom. Ordinary people share the show with famous ones: Guttuso, Campigli, Elsa Morante, Ungaretti. You go from that crowded platform to Silvana Mangano at home in Rome, and on to his 1959 reportage on abandoned children in Naples.
It runs from 19 November to 4 April. Entry is €9 (€7 reduced), Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, from Piazza Sant'Eustorgio 3, and the ticket covers the collection too. Until 31 January the building also has Artemisia Gentileschi's Annunciation on loan.
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About 100 black-and-white photographs of postwar Italy and the economic miracle, with portraits of Guttuso, Campigli, Elsa Morante and Ungaretti.
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Ferragosto at the station, Milan 1952
Look for the girl sitting alone on her suitcase on the empty side of the platform, while families wait opposite under a giant panettone ad.
Silvana Mangano, Rome 1959
The actress leans across a tufted footstool beside a lamp and a record player, while a man reads in the background.
Vittorio De Sica, 1961
De Sica lights a cigarette as he walks along the wall of a road tunnel, a line of car headlights beside him.
Waiting for rain, Motta Montecorvino 1958
From the Verso Sud reportage: a lone figure in black stands on a country road lined with wind-bent poplars, mountains behind.
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- Federico Garolla. Gente d'Italia. Fotografie 1948-1968Courtesy of Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini
- Il "segno" di San Francesco: immagini di una vitaCourtesy of Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
- Under Milano: Imaginary mapsCourtesy of Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
- Carla Cerati. Plurale femminile. Fotografia e scrittura, 1926-2026Courtesy Archivio Carla Cerati
- Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria MartiniTrotter Christie / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Pinacoteca AmbrosianaPaolobon140 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da VinciMuseo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Palazzo Reale di MilanoPaolobon140 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo del NovecentoFred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0