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United Artists of Italy: Photographic Portraits

EXHIBITION

22 June 2011 - 4 September 2011

United Artists of Italy showed twentieth-century Italian art in a new light, presenting the artists through the eyes of some of Italy's most celebrated photographers. The exhibition revealed a visual profile of contemporary art and artists not through their artworks but through faces, poses and expressions. Some 85 photographs were carefully selected from a collection of 250 portraits put together over a period of many years by Brescia-based contemporary art dealer Massimo Minini.

Framing Modernism: Architecture & Photography in Italy 1925-65

EXHIBITION

29 April 2009 - 21 June 2009

An exhibition of period photographs from the British Architectural Library Photographs Collection. Ever since its inception, photography has profoundly influenced the practice and study of architecture. This was especially true with the advent of Modernism which, during the 1920s, brought architecture and photography into closer alliance than ever before.

Viewpoints: Italy in Black and White

EXHIBITION

15 June 2005 - 4 September 2005

This exhibition offered a rare opportunity to admire and explore an outstanding private archive of photographs by the most important modern and contemporary Italian masters, selected from the Prelz Oltramonti Collection.