For all photography enthusiasts, a new column has been created which illustrates the main photography exhibitions in Italy each month, the most interesting ones and not to be missed: let’s discover the ones in December together!
For those who are tired of always missing out on appointments with the best photographic exhibitions in Italy, there is a new column, created precisely to be an agenda to always carry with you! Every month we will make a list of all the best photography exhibitions in Italy. For professionals who want to seek new stimuli, for enthusiasts who love exhibited photography, photography exhibitions are always a pleasure and for the month of November, there are truly some titles not to be missed! From the masters of photography returning to exhibitions in Italy, to contemporary art photographersfrom very large exhibitions, to exhibitions with few shots but very particular and intense.
Let’s discover the most interesting photography exhibitions in Italy in January!
Photography exhibitions January| Helmut Newton in Rome
- TITLE: HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY
- WHEN: from 18 October to 10 March 2024
- WHERE: Ara Pacis, Rome
In the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome you can enjoy the large retrospective dedicated to Helmut Newton, created on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the German photographer’s birth. The exhibition brings together a series of 250 photographs, as well as magazines and documents, to examine the artist’s language and provocative side. HELMUT NEWTON composed. LEGACY are some of the photographer’s most iconic works: among these stand out those linked to the most revolutionary and subversive fashion shoots for the time and the series inspired by the films of Hitchcock, Truffaut and Fellini.
Photography exhibitions January| Sebastião Salgado
- TITLE: Amazon
- WHEN: from 12 May 2023 to 28 January 2024 (extended)
- WHERE: Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
An author famous throughout the world, with an exhibition that has toured the world, but which from this year is available in Milan. After the Genesi project, dedicated to the most remote regions of the planet to demonstrate their majestic beauty, Sebastião Salgado has embarked on a new series of trips to capture the incredible richness and variety of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest and the ways of life of its people, settling in their villages for several weeks and photographing different ethnic groups. A project that lasted seven years, during which she photographed the vegetation, the rivers, the mountains and the people who live there. With over 200 photographs, Amazônia aims to propose a total immersion in the Amazon rainforest, inviting us to reflect on the need to protect it.
Photography exhibitions January| The work of Tina Medotti
- TITLE: Tima Medotti. The work.
- WHEN: from 22 September 2023 to 28 January 2024
- WHERE: Palazzo Roverella, Turin
At Palazzo Roverella the most complete exhibition ever organized in Italy on the work of Tina Modotti. More than 300 works including images, films and documents reconstruct the photographic work of one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. From architecture to still lifes, from the story of the daily life of the working classes, farmers, workers, children and women, to the mutation of the suburbs with the arrival of the new modernity. If her first steps as a photographer were still influenced by the great American photographer Edward Weston, of whom she was assistant and model during the years of the Mexican revolution, Tina Modotti’s gaze soon acquired her own personality both in the choice of subjects and in the their representation.
Photography exhibitions January| Robert Doisneau in Verona
- TITLE: Robert Doisneau, the great retrospective on the famous French photographer
- WHEN: from 15 November 2023 to 14 February 2024
- WHERE: Palazzo della Gran Guardia Verona
The master of twentieth-century photography returns to Italy with a retrospective of 135 of the best-known images, but also many experiments. Among the works on display could not be missing Le Baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 1950, a famous and iconic image, considered among the most reproduced in the world, in which a young couple kisses in front of the Paris town hall. The famous shot was not the result of chance: Doisneau was doing a shoot for the American magazine Life and for this reason he asked the two young people to pose for him.
Photography exhibitions January| André Kertész in Turin
- TITLE: André Kertész
- WHEN: from 19 October 2023 to 4 February 2024
- WHERE: Turin Chamber
André Kertész. The work 1912-1982 marks the autumn season of CAMERA. Created in collaboration with the Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographyie (MPP) of Paris – an institute that preserves the over one hundred thousand negatives and all the archives donated by the photographer to the French state in 1984 – the exhibition is made up of over one hundred and fifty images that retrace the entire career of the photographer of Hungarian origins, born in Budapest in 1894, who arrived in France in 1925 and finally moved to the United States in 1936, where he died in 1985.
Photography exhibitions January| Maria Callas portrayed in everyday life
- TITLE: Maria Callas. Portraits from the Publifoto Intesa Sanpaolo Archive
- WHEN: From 9 November 2023 to 18 February 2024
- WHERE: Gallerie d’Italia, Milan
The Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive preserves a large number of photographs – negatives and vintage prints – which portray the great soprano on public and private occasions, in a chronological period that follows the most significant years of her career, in his visits to Milan, but not only. The exhibition – 91 images covering the chronological period from 1954 to 1970 – will give space to the precious heritage made up of the numerous period prints present in the Publifoto Archive, many of which are unpublished or never exhibited, favoring a typology of images typical of a photojournalistic agency, which portrays Callas in everyday life ‘off stage’.
Photography exhibitions January | Mimmo Jodice
- TITLE: Mimmo Jodice. Mediterranean
- WHEN: From 9 November 2023 to 14 April 2024
- WHERE: Maxxi, Rome
Mediterraneo was born between the 80s and 90s, when Jodice developed a growing interest in the themes of the ancient, of memory, of origins, pursuing visions that are outside of reality. All this translates into various projects dedicated to Mediterranean culture and archeology which begin with an initial exploration of the Neapolitan area closest to him (Paestum, Neapolis, Pompeii, Cuma, Baia) and then extend to the Mare Nostrum – from Greece to Tunisia, from Jordan to Libya – to museums around the world.
Photography exhibitions January | Luca Locatelli between contemporary and ecology
- TITLE: Luca Locatelli. The Circle. Solutions for a possible future
- WHEN: From 21 September 2023 to 18 February 2024
- WHERE: Gallerie d’Italia, Turin
The Circle is a photographic project that tells the story of the revolution of possible solutions. The result of a very long-term research project, Luca Locatelli has documented the good practices, experiments, ambitions and paths of this new utopia. His decades-long commitment to the theme is condensed in the stories commissioned by Intesa Sanpaolo’s Gallerie d’Italia, presented for the first time in a single exhibition context in this exhibition.
Photography exhibitions January | Dorothea Lange
- TITLE: Dorothea Lange. The other America
- WHEN: From 18 October 2023 to 4 February 2024
- WHERE: Civic Museum, Bassano del Grappa
The Dorothea Lange exhibition. The other America, created in collaboration with CAMERA – Italian Center for Photography in Turin, presents the work of the famous American photographer, co-founder in 1952 of Aperture, the most authoritative photographic magazine in the world, and the first woman photographer to whom the MoMa he dedicated a retrospective in 1965, just a few months before his death.