CAMERA Turin opens 2025 with two exhibitions dedicated to Henri Cartier-Bresson and Riccardo Moncalvo

Starting Feb. 14, 2025, CAMERA - Italian Center for Photography in Turin inaugurates the new exhibition year with two exhibitions dedicated to Henri Cartier-Bresson and Riccardo Moncalvo.

The first, titled Henri Cartier-Bresson and Italy, which can be visited until June 2, 2025, curated by Clément Chéroux and Walter Guadagnini and accompanied by a catalog published by Dario Cimorelli Editore, traces chronologically with 160 shots and archival material Cartier-Bresson’s travels across the peninsula from North to South. Produced in collaboration with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, the exhibition focuses on crucial moments in the photographer’s career beginning in the 1930s: it was during his first trip to Italy in 1932 that the very young Cartier-Bresson developed a new stylistic awareness that would accompany him throughout his career. In those years he began to investigate fundamental themes in his work, such as the relationship between reality and fiction, the management of image space, and the ability to capture the moment.

After the war, having returned to Italy as a photojournalist, Cartier-Bresson produced reportages for international newspapers, capturing life in the cities of Rome, Naples and Venice. His photographs documented the social hardship of the South, the novelties introduced by agrarian reform and the country’s traditions. In the 1970s, however, the photographer focused onindustrialization, particularly in the South, making reportages at the Olivetti plant in Pozzuoli and theAlfa Romeo plant in Pomigliano d’Arco, investigating the relationship between man and machine.

In parallel, also from February 14 but until April 6, 2025, CAMERA’s Project Room is hosting the exhibition Riccardo Moncalvo. Photographs 1932-1990, dedicated to the important photographer from Turin. Curated by Barbara Bergaglio, the exhibition presents sixty vintage prints tracing his career, in black and white and color, from the Riccardo Moncalvo Archive and private collections.

Riccardo Moncalvo (Turin, 1915-2008) began his photographic career when he was only thirteen years old, following in the footsteps of his father, owner of the Artistic and Industrial Photography atelier, and very soon became a member of the Subalpine Photographic Society. In the interwar years, Moncalvo’s photographs began to appear in important trade magazines, and the photographer became one of the first in Italy to produce professional color prints.

CAMERA Turin opens 2025 with two exhibitions dedicated to Henri Cartier-Bresson and Riccardo Moncalvo

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