Delpire & Co is reissuing a new version of the photographic book Les Italiens by French-Swiss photojournalist Bruno Barbey. It is based on the "Encyclopédie essentielle" series created by publisher Robert Delpire in the early 1960s. For the occasion, the 85 black-and-white photos are accompanied by a text by Italian writer Giosuè Calaciura. To discover.
A photojournalist by profession, Bruno Barbey has photographed numerous conflicts in France and abroad, from the Gulf War to the student revolt of May 1968. A lover of neo-realism, most of his work is imbued with this style. In 1965, he joined the Magnum Photos agency, which fell in love with his melancholy yet striking photographs.
" It's Italy cut in two, the South and the North, in a black and white that becomes a metaphor for two different conditions," says Giosuè Calaciura. In the 1960s, Bruno Barbey had the idea of photographing the streets of an Italy slowly recovering from the ravages of the Second World War. Page after page, the black-and-white shots tell a story. The story of a people trying to reconnect with the pleasures of a simple life.
Bruno Barbey's "The Italians" is also an exhibition. The black-and-white photographs can be seen until July 2 in the heart of the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
LES ITALIENS DE BRUNO BARBEY
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"THE ITALIANS" ACADÉMIE DES BEAUX-ARTS
27, QUAI DE CONTI, PARIS, 6E
UNTIL JULY 2 2023
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