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In the years between 1949 and 1962, while the cultural movement of Neorealism
increasingly acclaimed by critics and the public, Ando Gilardi
performed throughout Italy its photo reportages
on commission of the magazine Lavoro (the mouthpiece of CGIL-trade union) or
for scholars Etnologists Ernesto De Martino (University of Sassari),
Tullio Seppilli (University of Perugia) and Diego Carpitella (Etno-musical
Institute of the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome). Fototeca Gilardi preserves
hundreds of photographs that depict fragments of life really "real" lived
in those years, people and places more real than Neorealistics. More true
than the famous "Bicycle thieves" there are the anonymous artisans that
fixed them: it is only one example. Merry and many characters, Italy's
protagonists of the postwar period
and of the economic boom.
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Themes for: Ando Gilardi and the Neorealism
ANTHROPOLOGY: MAGIC RITUALS AND POPULAR Images
of extraordinary charm even if carried out for scientific-documentary to authoritative
ethnological searches. The themes of the investigations were: the magicians healers
of the South Italy, the propitiatory ritual of spring,
the stornellatori that is the popular improviser poets
The stornello is a short popular Italian lyric, usually improvised.
Recommended searches (words in Italian, please!):
in the field parole chiave (keywords)search:
Sud e Magia (South and Magic)
or, in alternative: Carpitella or also stornello
WORKERS of the campaigns and factories.
Images from 1950 to 1962: in the period
in which Gilardi was correspondent throughout Italy
for the magazine of the trade-union and responsible for telling
the farmworkers and workers countless stories of toil
and fight. Some of them were achieved also
abroad, where they were migrants to survive.
Recommended searches (words in Italian, please!):
in the field fotografo (photographer)search: Ando Gilardi
and in the results: agricoltura (agriculture, farming)
or, in alternative again in the field fotografo (photographer)search: Ando Gilardi
but in the results: fabbrica (factory) or miniera (mine).
FAMILY Women and children: poor but beautiful!
The daily life in post-war: in all the desire to
rebuild. In all able positive energy despite of the humble starting conditions;
where they lived, how they lived, how the Italian families ate, sleeping,
went to school, did the laundry. Also the gaze of the photographer
affectionate wished to communicate positive energy.
Recommended searches (words in Italian, please!):
in the field fotografo (photographer)search: Ando Gilardi
and in the results: famiglia (family) or bambini (children) or
vita quotidiana (daily life)
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