Realism, Neorealism and Reality

An immense number of pictures, taken by photographers and photojournalists, have composed an extensive anthology of the short century, narrating the history of Italy as a symbol of coexistence of opposite and extremely distant worlds - rural labourers and the working class, conflict and peace, glamour and provincialism - and becoming a shared narrative for the world that recognised Italy's supremacy as the quintessential home of intellectual creativity.

photographers: Bruno Barbey, Gian Barbieri, Cesare Barzacchi, Valentino Bassanini, Aldo Beltrame, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Carlo Bevilacqua, Gino Bolognini, Gianni Borghesan, Giuliano Borghesan, Piergiorgio Branzi, Stefano Bricarelli, Giuseppe Bruno, Alfredo Camisa, Robert Capa, Mario Carbone, Lisetta Carmi, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Tranquillo Casiraghi, Alfa Castaldi, Mimmo Castellano, Enrico Cattaneo, Mario Cattaneo, Carla Cerati, Carlo Cisventi, Osvaldo Civirani, Cesare Colombo, Carlo Cosulich, Mario Cresci, Luciano D'Alessandro, Carlo Dalla Mura, Gualberto Davolio Marani, Pasquale De Antonis, Mario De Biasi, Nino De Pietro, Antonio Del Tin, Augusto Di Giovanni, Mario Dondero, Pietro Donzelli, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Tullio Farabola, Ferruccio Ferroni, Franci, Leonard Freed, Evaristo Fusar, Caio Garrubba, Arturo Ghergo, Ghillani, Mario Giacomelli, Giancolombo, Ando Gilardi, Marino Ingrosso, William Klein, Giuseppe Leone, Herbert List, Uliano Lucas, Ivo Maldolesi, Sante Vittorio Malli, Cecilia Mangini, Fosco Maraini, Thomas D. McAvoy, Mario Meloni, Pepi Merisio, Antonio Migliori, Ruth Orkin, Carlo Orsi, Enrico Pasquali, Federico Patellani, Angelo Pennoni, Tino Petrelli, A. Piatti, Franco Pinna, Giovanni Battista Poletto, Marisa Rastellini, Stefano Robino, Fulvio Roiter, Chiara Samugheo, Walter Sanders, Nicola Sansone, Osvaldo Savoini, Gotthard Schuh, Ferdinando Scianna, Tazio Secchiaroli, Enzo Sellerio, David Seymour, Elio Sorci, Roberto Spampinato, Paul Strand, Renzo Tortelli, Arnaldo Vaselli, Piero Vistali, Pablo Volta, Cuchi White, Arturo Zavattini, Ugo Zovetti.