The exhibition NeoRealismo. The New Image In Italy, 1932-1960 examines in depth the key role of photography in the Italian Neorealism period, mostly concentrated on literature and cinema. The exhibition studies the path of the photographic medium from realism in the Fascist era up to the economic boom, which will completely change the cultural scenario. Particular importance is given to the comparison between the intentions and the results of the neorealist authors who, starting from distant cultural approaches, managed to create a corpus of pictures which speaks, in an honest and punctual way, about people of an unknown and fragmented Italy.

With this exhibition, ADMIRA fully fulfills its main mission, which is to bring the Italian photography worldwide.

The exhibition unfolds through different sections, which are all necessary to understand neorealist poetry and its different facets:

Realism in the Fascist era The unsuspected roots of neo-realism

Poverty and Reconstruction The backward conditions and the confidence in the future

Ethnologic Inquiry Major scientific projects and eyewitnesses

Photojournalism and Illustrated Magazines Usage of the photographic image for communication purposes

Between Art and Document Photographic circles: a place for debate and growth in the establishment of photography as a form of art

The exhibition, available for further locations, is curated by Enrica Viganò and organized by ADMIRA and it is enriched with original publications of magazines, photo books, catalogs, posters, as well as clips taken from films directed by Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti, just to name a few.

In 2018 the exhibition has travelled to the United States of America: the corpus of the photographic exhibition was presented at the Gray Art Gallery, New York University, while at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò the section dedicated to the cinema was exhibited.

For the images of Piergiorgio Branzi ©Piergiorgio Branzi/Courtesy Fondazione Forma/Contrasto Galleria Milano; Sante Vittorio Malli © Eredi Sante Vittorio Malli; Cecilia Mangini © Cecilia Mangini / Courtesy Archivio Cecilia Mangini; Fulvio Roiter © Fondazione Fulvio Roiter; Federico Patellani © Archivio Patellani; Tranquillo Casiraghi © Eredi Tranquillo Casiraghi; Gianni Berengo Gardin © Archivio Gianni Berengo Gardin; Mario De Biasi © Archivio Mario De Biasi; Pasquale De Antonis © Archivio De Antonis.