Ando Gilardi - Fototeca

14 October 2021 - 02 January 2022

Exhibitions

BolognaPromenade raccomendedFree entry

Photographer, historian, critic, editor… Ando Gilardi is one of the most eclectic and original figures in the history of Italian photography. The National Historical Photo Library, which he founded in 1959, hosts approximately 500,000 images and represents a pioneering archive on the uses and social functions of photography. This exhibition presents a selection of the numerous materials produced and collected by Gilardi. The photos are on the topic of nutrition, starting from the photo-surveys carried out in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly centered on work in the fields and across industries, and on materials preserved and reproduced (re-photographed) in the vast inventory he put together: stickers, wrappers, boxes, advertisements, books, magazines, herbariums, family photographs and much more. Fototeca is an exploration of the iconography of food and of the power with which photography keeps it alive, accessible and reviewable.