Exhibition by Gianni Beringo Garden at the Maxi Museum

200 black and white snapshots sum up the career of a veteran photographer

Beringo Jardin: “The value of photography lies in the fact that it is the recording of reality.”

From today, the Maxi Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome will host an exhibition that constitutes a “journey through Italian history”, which includes photographs taken by the Italian Gianni Beringo Gardin during a long career that has continued for 70 years.

The exhibition, which will run until September 18, includes more than 200 black and white photographs, some of which have not been shown before, including street shots, landscapes, reportages and portraits of people's faces, all taken using traditional photography.

The exhibition entitled "The Eye as a Profession" highlights the "literal" approach of the photographer, who is currently 91 years old, who rejects any revision of his photographs and adheres to a "realistic" vision of everyday life.

The displayed images represent a journey through more than half a century of Italian history, from after World War II to today, in which Gianni Beringo Garden’s camera monitored remote villages and large cities, entered psychiatric hospitals, accompanied Roma groups, and dived into the world of work and workers.

Influenced by French humanistic photography and the American School, Beringo Jardin says, while holding his Lika camera, he has always been "attracted to social issues."

He adds, "I think that the documentary image is more important than the image that is described as artistic, as it shows something that is important to show," considering that "the value of photography lies in the fact that it is a recording of reality."

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