“Glimpses of Rome” at the Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi

About eighty images ranging from the eighties to the millennium, representative of some of the most important Italian photographers - Nine names of undisputed fame – set up in the exhibition hosted by 29 October 2014 March 8 2015 in the exhibition rooms on the ground floor of the Museo di Roma promossa and Roma Capitale, Department of Culture, Creativity and Artistic Promotion – Superintendent Capitoline with the organization of Zètema Culture Project.
These images, from the contemporary section of the Photographic Palazzo Braschi, tell - with care Anita Margiotta – the city of Rome showing the major changes that has suffered in recent decades, while providing an opportunity to reflect on contemporary photography and its search for new iconography of the urban landscape.
An archive repository of a collection of great historical importance, which over time has extended its reserving a space contemporary photographic art. The donation of ten works that Gianni themselves GardiNo he wanted to do in the 1986, followed by the acquisition of photographs by Gabriele Basilico, Roberto Bossaglia, John Chiaramonte, Mario Cresci, Louis Ghirri, Guido Guidi, Roberto Koch and, last, Andrea Jemolo.
Particularly interesting representations of the sites of major public works that preceded and accompanied the arrival of the new millennium.
The period told through this exhibition also presents the transition, important, from analogue to digital. Indeed, while leaving the recovery process development and printing, the photography as a document, become - dramatic transformation – photo come operates espressione, thus overcoming the traditional distinction between artist and photographer.
The Hall of Photography on the second floor of the Museum, specially set up again on the occasion of the centenary of Italy's entry into World War I., will host the exhibition "Rome and the Great War. 1915 – 1918.”, edited by Anita Margiotta and Maria Elisa Tittoni. 35 images from the collections of the Museum Photo of Rome Rome as illustrating, though far from the scene of clashes, faced by the protagonist that time. A small but valuable exposure that will also see the pictures of some of the protagonists of those years: by the British Royal Pope Benedict XV and the Prime Minister Salandra that the Foreign Minister Sonnino supported the entry into the war on the side of France and England. A small section will be devoted to some rare photographs from the Alpine front, I remember a veteran of the War of the Roman Empire.