Italian Women Photographers on show at La Triennale

The exhibition “The other view. Italian Women Photographers 1965-2015” will open next 5 October at La Triennale, Milan. Curated by Raffaella Perna, it shows a selection of more than one hundred and fifty photographs and photo books from the Donata Pizzi Collection, which has been set up and created with the aim of promoting knowledge and appreciation of the most significant photographers in Italy from the mid-sixties to the present day. The collection – which is unparalleled in Italy – consists of works taken by about fifty women photographers from different generations: from the pioneering work of Paola Agosti, Letizia Battaglia, Lisetta Carmi, Carla Cerati, Paola Mattioli, and Marialba Russo, through to experimental works from the 1990s to 2015 by Marina Ballo Charmet, Silvia Camporesi, Monica Carocci, Gea Casolaro, Paola Di Bello, Luisa Lambri, Raffaella Mariniello, Marzia Migliora, Moira Ricci, Alessandra Spranzi and many others. The exhibition will end next 8 January, 2017.