These are photos that tell our story Robert Capa exhibited at Alinari Museum of Piazza Santa Maria Novella a Firenze. The allied landing in Sicily, the arrival in Naples, the days of Cassino: images of tears, despair, destruction in an Italy that seems so distant from time, but which was the country of our grandparents. Capa is in fact considered one of the greatest war photojournalists of the twentieth century and this exhibition is proof of this, as well as being a real photographic story of one of the most controversial pages of the Italian past.
The exhibition, comprising 78 works in black and white, was organized on the centenary of the photographer's birth in collaboration with the National Museum of Budapest, to which they belong, on the occasion of the Italo-Hungarian cultural year and has already been in Rome, at Palazzo Braschi. The photographer not only recorded what was happening in the world, but was able to do it in a completely personal and passionate way. It is indeed always at the forefront, even and especially during war conflicts. This is precisely how he lost his life in 1954, in Indochina, stepping on a lethal mine. His reflections and writings are exhibited as an accompaniment and extension of each photograph.
It is the last event organized by the Alinari Museum, as it will be incorporated into the adjacent Museo del Novecento, which will open its business on 30 April 2014. The exhibition will be open to visitors until the February 24 and is open every day, from the 10 18.30, except Wednesdays. The ticket costs 9 € and includes a visit to the entire museum of historical photography.
