This page gathers photographers connected to Italy and traces how each links to a period and movement in the history of photography.
Beato, Venice-born and naturalized British, followed British and French imperial campaigns from Crimea through India, China, and Japan. Based in Yokohama from 1863, he sold …
Born in 1896 in Udine, northeastern Italy, Tina Modotti moved to San Francisco as a teenager and came to photography after working in theater and film. From 1923, she worked in …
Olivo Barbieri moved from photographing provincial cities and pinball machines in the late 1970s to artificial illumination, urbanization in China, and aerial views of global …
Luisa Lambri photographs the interiors of buildings by Schindler, Neutra, Barragán, Breuer, SANAA, and others from positions and moments that differ only slightly. Through …
Multiplicity is an Italian research collective using photography, maps, testimony, video, and installation to investigate migration, borders, infrastructure, and the politics of …
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