Fragments of an immense landscape: Mountains in photography 1850-1870
Turin, Italy
From: 22.05.2015 to: 15.11.2015
The relationship between photography and landscape plays a key role in Italian and other cultures. The national identity of each and every country and culture is built on its landscape. The positivistic culture of the nineteenth century found in photography the most adequate and efficient instrument to satisfy the growing need for an analytic understanding of the world.
These considerations are at the base of this exhibition that, through precious images, conveys the origins of mountains in photography and the building of its imagery, through fragments of an immense landscape of highlands.
In the art show - ‘Fragments of an immense landscape: Mountains in photography 1850-1870’, curated by Veronica Lisino with the audiovisual coordination of Aldo Audisio –around 150 pieces by very famous photographers are on display. The photographs come from the collections of the National Mountain Museum of Turin (Museo Nazionale della Montagna) and among the authors are the Bisson brothers, Édouard Baldus, Samuel Bourne, Francis Frith, Victor Muzet, Giacomo Brogi and many others.
Key is the relationship between landscape and photography in the years 1850-1870, which is part of the wider relationship between people and environment. The exhibition is composed by a selection of photos of mountains from all over the world – from the European Alps to the sacred mountains of the Sinai and the Himalayas.
This photography exhibit – organized by the National Mountain Museum of Turin in cooperation with the Piedmont region, the Chamber of Commerce Industry Handicraft and Agriculture of Trento, with the support of the San Paolo Company, the City of Turin and the Italian Alpine Club – is an occasion to reflect on prints of great quality in a contemporary world of images that are consumed in just a few hours.
The art show is part of the initiatives of Expo 2015 in Turin.
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