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By Beatrice Bondi Venerdì sera presso l'Italian American Museum di Mulberry Street, il fotogiornalista Joseph M. Calisi ha presentato una selezione di scatti della città di Bari e delle zone limitrofe, facendo un breve excursus storico sulla regione e mostrando le bellezze architettoniche, artistiche e naturali che la contraddistinguono. Calisi,...

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by Anthony J. Tamburri This past summer New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio returned to his maternal family roots in Italy. The Mayor's grandparents immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s: his grandmother Anna Briganti was from Grassano (Basilicata, Matera Province), and his grandfather Giovanni De Blasio from the town of Sant'Agata de'...

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by Robert Gallo   Abraham Lincoln once told of an Old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams," indicating that doing so could be risky.   Ignoring this sage advice, Italian Photographer, Marcello Moccia, born and raised in Naples, Italy, "one of the most beautiful cities in...

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This year www.Dronestagr.am, the first social network dedicated to aerial photography, set out to find the best aerial photographs out there. The competition received 6000 entries, which illustrated the vast diversity of the genre, but one image of Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (above) jumped out.   The competition was broken down into...

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The Italian photographer Ugo Zovetti was known for his sense of realism. In a 1958 photograph, he captured a group of four street musicians, all wearing signs around their necks that declare, "BLIND."   It's reminiscent of Paul Strand's "Blind Woman," a 1969 photo that shows the subject's affected eye and evokes sympathy. The blind men in Zo...

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Daniele De Michele, a bearded and boisterous D.J. and performance artist who is one of Italy's most inventive food activists, is on a yearlong journey to explore and document the country's working-class and peasant culinary traditions.   Mr. De Michele, who is 40 and goes by the nom d'art D.J. Donpasta, is concerned that some of Italy's age-...

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Across the south of Italy, unfinished foundations and concrete frames rise from a landscape of rolling hills and thick canopies of trees. Many look as though their building crews and cranes stepped off site only yesterday; others as though they were abandoned decades ago.   These "interrupted" remains are the focus of French photographer Amé...

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Palazzo Incontro displays an exhibition of photographs by the US photographer, musician, writer and movie director Gordon Parks (1912-2006) who is best remembered for his photographic articles for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft.   Entitled Una storia americana, the exhibition comprises photographs by Parks that deal...

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Venti immagini in bianco e nero del fotografo Renato D'Agostin verranno esposte all'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington dal 29 settembre al 18 dicembre dopo aver fatto il giro del mondo tra le gallerie di San Francisco, New York, Milano, Parigi, Tokyo, Madrid e Istanbul.   A presentare la mostra assieme all'autore sarà Verna Curtis, curatrice d...

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Just one ticket to spend a day in one of the most important Italian institutions for art, design, fashion, film, and contemporary architecture: the Milan Triennale.   Housed in the Palazzo dell'Arte, the Triennale hosts a series of exhibitions and concurrent events ranging from photography exhibitions to architectural projects with a focus o...

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