Photogallery
Auteurs
- from the '50s to the '70s -
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From the Historical Archive
[Click on the names to access its portfolio]
It was Monti’s intellectual status
that catalysed and directed the
Circolo’s production taking its
distances both from the formalist
aesthetic of the Bussola, connected
to classical figurative traditions
through its leader Giuseppe Cavalli
and in particular the quiet and
quasi-metaphysical Renaissance
atmospheres, but also from the
seething Neorealist reality which in
cinema was reaping great benefits.
If Monti overcame in one go the
sterile form/contents dialectics
that concerned all circles
experimenting with abstract art,
especially obvious during the
memorable Venice Biennial in 1948,
others found in Venice and in
reportages made abroad, the occasion
to explore new expressivities, far
from the formalistic expressions and
pre-war motifs.
And so, in the freedom and fervour
of critical debate, the
photographers who would have
influenced Italian photography
surfaced in the limelight. Other
than Monti, there was Gianni Berengo
Gardin, Fulvio Roiter, Giuseppe
“Bepi” Bruno and Elio Ciol, who all
became professional later on.
Alongside these talented men a
number of Auteurs can be counted who
were equally talented but for
personal or professional reasons
renounced a professional career
generally ending their photographic
parenthesis a few years later.
