The significant moments of the Great War, the first line and above all the daily life in the background, are the protagonists of the photographic exhibition "Images from the front".
Presented from 3 to 29 May 2022 at the Luciana Matalon Foundation in Milan, in collaboration with the Cesare Pozzo Foundation for mutuality and under the patronage of the City of Milan.
Visita ufficiale di CadornaFondazione Luciana Matalon
The wide selection of over 120 unpublished photographs belonging to a photographic collection owned by the Library of Transport and Mutuality Cesare Pozzo was dispayed for the first time.
The collection of photographs documents not only a crucial historical moment but also the birth in Italy of a photographic genre: that of photojournalism.
The authorship of the images was discovered thanks to the stamps on the back of the photographs, refer in large part to the photographic and cinematographic sections of the Royal Italian Army and the Supreme Command and to images taken by private photographic laboratories.
