100 foto che sconvolsero il mondo

A thorough photographic selection spanning nearly two hundred years of history. A journey by im-mages that highlights, with a few surprises, the most representative events of our society.

Photography is the language of contemporaneity: with its immediacy it provides a mode of communication that everyone can enjoy. The volume The 100 Photographs that Changed the World recounts its evolution, starting with Niépce’s early 19th-century experiments and arriving at Robert Capa’s “militiaman,” explores the poetic images of Julia Margaret Cameron, then dives into Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills, traverses the immense landscapes of Ansel Adams and flows into the surreal colors used by Richard Mosse to depict the civil war in the Congo.

However, the selection also gives ample space to significant events of the twenty-first century: James Nachtwey and the theme of the attack on democracy, Tim Hetherington and the psychological consequences of a soldier at war, Andreas Gursky and the phenomenon of mass consumerism up to the present day with images of the pandemic from COVID19 in Wuhan and the war in Ukraine.

We thus discover that we inhabit a world governed by suspended situations that we are invited to explore, realizing that, unaware, we are living history. Photography-and thus this book-offer us a tool for reflection.

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Denis Curti – Curator of exhibitions and photography reviews, journalist, photography critic and author of several books, he was, among other things, director of the Turin Photography Biennial, the Contrasto agency and the Capri Photography Festival.