Portraits

A surprising exploration of thehumanity through the eyes of great 20th century and contemporary photographers is the protagonist of the exhibition Portraits. Florence and Damien Bachelot Collectioncurated by Tiziana Bonomo. Set up in the halls of the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento, the exhibition presents about 90 original photographs from one of Europe's most important private photographic collections.

The exhibition is divided into four sections - Myths, Emotions, Society and News - and spans a century of visual historysymbolic images of Lewis Hinewith Italian migrant children in the United States, to the suspended intimacy of Saul Leiterportraits of Nan Goldin, Paul Graham, Dorothea Lange, Elliott Erwitt e Vivian Maier. The photographs tell famous faces such as Picasso, Romy Schneider, Hemingwaybut also ordinary people immortalised in their profound authenticity.

Each work on display, including rarities such as a lightbox with Brigitte Bardot by Elio Sorci, offers a fresh look at social transformations and universal emotions. The exhibition also features a video with images from the 17,000 historical photographic documents held by the museum, including the portrait of the Countess of Castiglionewitnessing the use of photography in the 19th century as a means of identity construction.

A cultural initiative that creates a bridge between past and presentvaluing photography as artistic and historical instrument of great narrative power.