Giorgio Lotti and Maria Vittoria Backhaus to Cavallerizza, the new space of Brescia dedicated to photography – Brescia

Brescia – In Brescia, the New House of Photography has the colors of Cavalerie, the new exhibition space, available for the community, intended to welcome exhibitions, photography and cultural activities, aimed at improving and promoting photographic art, especially Italian.
The center opened its doors on 12 April with two personal people who focus on Giorgio Lotti and Maria Vittoria Backhaus, Masters or Italian Contemporary Photography, an integral part of the program of the eighth appointment with the Brescia Photo Festival, with the Municipary of Brescoration, in Collescation, in Collaboration, in Collaboration, in Collaboration, in Collaboration, in Collabation, From the Italian Photograza, in the Cavaller center of the Italian Photograza, in the middle of the Italian Photograza center of Italian Photography, in the middle of the Italian -italato -sex. Corsini.

Giorgio Lotti. Photographer It is the title of the review in Progress to Cavallerizza until 8 June, compiled by Renato Corsini and Laura Tenti. The Fulcrum of the Route is the Story of the Career of the Milanese Photographer, born in 1937, Among The Best Interpreters of Photojournalism, A Long Collaboration With Magazines, from the era to Paris Match, and Prestigious Shots Albert Museum in London, at the Cabinet des Estampes in Paris.

Giorgio Lotti, Sofia Loren about the set of “Crossbow Operation”, Elstree Studios, London, 1964 © Giorgio Lotti – Courtesy Mondadori Portfolio

Anticipating the most urgent social issues of recent years, with studies into pollution and the phenomenon of immigration, made in the 1970s, Lotti has always told that Italy with a lucid look that was a new way to understand life after economic flowering. It is precisely during one of his countless trips that takes one of the most iconic photos of the last century: the portrait of the head of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, Zhou Enlai. An emblematic shot that started the twenty years of journey to discover a country and then far from Post -Water Italy, a China with a new face, with his political life, traditions, daily life.
Shown over a hundred black -white photos and color repeat the career of Lotti, from the Florence Flood from 1966 to the disaster in Vajont from 1963, from the first arrival of the Albanians in Brindisi in 1991 to the portraits of the great characters of the world of entertainment and culture.
A section recalls the funeral of two emblematic figures of the twentieth century, San Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo and Enrico Berlinguer.

The second protagonist of Cavallerizza – Center of Italian photography is Maria Vittoria Backhaus, Milanese, born in 1942, compiled in the center of staff by Margherita Magnino and Carolina Zani.
Until 8 June, the artistic journey of Backhaus runs through one hundred photos, of the first black -white recordings that are linked to the social and costume report, made for newspapers as an illustrated time, ABC and the world, fashionable, to the introduction of color and digital. The Milan of the sixties are on its way, but also the circus, the competitions for dogs, the portraits of famous characters such as Caterina Caselli and Carla Fracci, and then the jewelry or collages with votive statuettes, which characterized the exceptional versatility and the constant desire for experimenting.

Maria Vittoria Backhaus, Collage Icon #01, Filicudi, 2008 © Maria Vittoria Backhaus

An important page in the career of Maria Vittoria Backhaus is dedicated to fashion photography, confronted with initial distrust. It was Walter Albini who made her changed attitude and learned how much fashion complex was, far from just an aesthetic grill. On the other hand, Maria Vittoria Backhaus instead of the dress of the model privileged the story, in which photography is considered a means to create a project, to make images that recorded their gaze that brought back the spirit of time and the historical context, which brought the language of the report within fashion photography.

The two projects enrich the corpus of personal exhibitions of the Brescia Photo Festival, organized around the archive schedule, inaugurated with the first real Italian anthological of Joel Meyerowitz, on the way until 24 August in the Museum of Santa Giulia, and it will continue to Cavallerizza of Sandy BRAGLUNS with the Sandy Sandy Brog.