The initiative is part of the fourth edition of the Brescia Photo Festival, ongoing until 17 October 2021, curated by Renato Corsini and promoted by the Municipality of Brescia and the Brescia Museums Foundation with the collaboration of MaCof - Center of Italian photography.
This year's theme, Heritage, is connected to the celebrations for the return to Brescia of the Winged Victory, one of the most extraordinary bronze statues of the Roman era, spokesperson for the cultural value and identity of the city's heritage, after two years of restoration by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence.
The review – in line with the topic chosen for the Brescia Photo Festival – recalls an authentically Italian heritage such as Federico Fellini and documents the lesser-known side of the great director. The exhibition, curated by Renato Corsini, presents indeed fifty photographs, mostly vintage, which offer the visitor the image of a more private Fellini, caught in the moments of pause in the shooting of a film or in those that precede a public intervention, in any case distant from the official one linked to the role of director.
The route winds through the splendid sequenced portraits of Sandro Becchetti, where it is possible to intuit the talent of a man who makes gaze and mimicry two essential moments of his way of expressing himself, the stage photographs of Tazio Secchiaroli, the quintessential paparazzi of the Dolce Vita Roman, and those ofDufoto Agency, in which its ability to handle the backstage of the masterpieces he has been able to create.
Particularly curious are the shots of the informal and casual encounters that Fellini had with Vittorio De Sica, with Roberto Rossellini, with Andy Warhol, with Alberto Sordi or with simple patrons of the bars of Rome, who bear witness to a daily life in which its presence is enough to become extraordinary. The exhibition is completed by some posters of his most famous films.
