Henri Cartier-Bresson's Italian Journey at CAMERA in Turin

CAMERA in Turin presents a major exhibition of Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographs documenting his 40-year relationship with Italy, running until June 2. The show features 160 images taken with his Leica, capturing Italy's social transformation during the economic boom. Cartier-Bresson first visited Italy in 1932 at age 24, traveling to Trieste with writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues and painter Leonor Fini. His work blends surrealist aesthetics with journalistic realism, focusing on street life in cities like Rome, Florence, Siena, Bologna, Venice, and Genoa. Notable is his 1953 photo essay for Life magazine titled "Succede tutto nella piazza." He was particularly struck by Scanno in Abruzzo, where he photographed women in traditional dress. The exhibition also includes vintage magazines. Concurrently, the Project Room features Riccardo Moncalvo (1915–2008), a Turin photographer, with 50 black-and-white and color images from his archive, on view until April 6. Moncalvo's work spans New Vision poetics, portraiture of Turin families, and industrial commissions for Fiat, Pininfarina, and Recchi. He was a friend of Carlo Mollino and ran an avant-garde photographic laboratory.