Anna Maria Ferrari de Borghese, Nora Balzani, Isola del Garda, 1907
on show in Rome at the Calcografia, albums of the noblewoman, wife of political and race car driver Scipione, author of travel reportage and war
February 25, 2011 - April 6, 2011
Princess and rider, Anna Maria de Ferrari (1874-1924), wife of Scipione Borghese, diplomat and politician for having been reported that led to the success of the crew who participated, on board an Italy, Peking to Paris car to the raid of 1907, during his life picked up, he ordered eight thousand photographs and wrote almost all taken from her, with the exception of some attributed to her husband. This body, guarded by his nephew Novello Cavazza and remained unpublished until the atrium Festival 2010 ("Report / Pictures, words, stories), is now displayed in an exhibition entitled" The story of an era. Photographs from the album Princess Anna Maria Borghese, "staged at the Chalcography of Rome from February 25 to April 6 by Maria Francesca Bonetti and Mario Peliti.
These photo albums, covering the period 1898-1924, will enrich the archive of images of the twentieth century Italian National Institute for Graphics. The goal of the photographer is open to adventure trips in many countries along with her husband: among others, Russia, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, Persia, the ' Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, China and Japan. It focuses also on the experience of World War I, lived as a nurse directly. There are, then, images of the Avezzano earthquake of 1915 and reconstruction after the earthquake of Messina in 1908.
This is a collection of exceptional interest for the freshness, freedom and curiosity of the gaze, but also for the ease of composition of the snapshot, snapshots made with the small-format box camera, not professional, then just put marketed by Kodak. The visual story of Anna Maria Ferrari de Borghese joins the one of the most famous contemporary Francesco Chigi Primoli and Joseph and Louis, well known representatives of the Roman history of photography. His testimony, historical value and historical photographs, like that of other distinguished "amateurs", is at the limit of the amateur, to appear almost albeit unwittingly, to photojournalism.
The exhibition presents original albums and reprints. The catalog, in Italian and English, is published by Peliti Associati. In Network Connections
'National Institute for Graphics
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