Mario De Biasi and Milan. Extraordinary edition

Edited by M. V. Baravelli, S. De Biasi

A visual essay on theby Mario De Biasi (1923-2013), versatile photographer, defined by Enzo Biagi the man who could photograph everything. And in this all he favoured the Lombard capital, where he moved at the age of 15. Thus, one hundred years after his birth, the Museum is dedicating an Extraordinary Edition to him that brings together a series of iconic shots dedicated to his adopted city.

The exhibition, organised and produced by Mondadori Portfolio in collaboration with the Museo Diocesano di Milano and curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli and Silvia De Biasi, presents 100 photographs mostly vintage, unpublished proofs and shots, taken in almost 70-year career by one of the most appreciated authors of the second half of the Italian 20th centurywho for three decades documented the history of our country through the pages of the periodical Epoch by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.

The exhibition - consisting of works from the Mondadori Archive and the Mario De Biasi Archive - gives the public an insight into the personal language that De Biasi adapted to very different contexts. And, in particular, to Milan.

One lucid and evocative gaze at the same time, capable of recounting a controversial moment in Italian history with immediacy and originality. In the orderly plots of his shots, one can read the historical and cultural changes of the country, which in the 1950s and 1960s was settling on a renewed cultural identity.

^{Photo Credit: © Mondadori Portfolio / Mario De Biasi Archive}