10×10. Storie di donne fotografe

Beginning with a carefully selected group of their most successful and celebrated images, etched in the eyes and emotions of us all, the book chronicles the unfolding fortunes of the great pioneers of 1900s photography: from Dorothea Lange with her shots of America prostrated by the Great Depression to Gerda Taro with her tragic, untimely end in the Spanish-American War; from Margaret Bourke-White, among the first photographers to set foot in the Buchenwald concentration camp, to Claude Cahun, whose work brilliantly anticipates such modern-day issues as those related to gender and sexual identity.

Then there are authors devoted to their own original research, such as Tina Modotti, divided between art and political commitment, and the versatile Imogen Cunningham, up to the present day, with great artists such as Cindy Sherman and Vanessa Beecroft, who use photography as a privileged medium (for Sherman exclusive) of expression of their inner world and expressive research.

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Nicolas Ballario – Curator and television and radio host, he studied photography at the John Kaverdash School in Milan and attended the Altieri Academy in Rome. He joined Oliviero Toscani’s staff and is an expert in the marriage of art and mass media. He collaborates with Radio Radicale and Rai Radio 1, and in 2019 he co-hosted with Oliviero Toscani the program Camera Oscura, broadcast on La7 in two special episodes dedicated to the discovery of photography and its secrets. He currently edits the art section of “Rolling Stone Italia.”