On Thursday 22 September at 6 pm,  Forma Foundation for Photography will inaugurate the exhibition Polaroids by Julian Schnabel.

For many years Julian Schnabel, the versatile American artist and director, has taken large format Polaroids using an old panoramic 20 x 24in Camera from 1970 which is as large as a fridge. His images reveal a deep, intimate poetry that mirrors the rhythm and events of his daily life as an artist. Indeed, some photographs show his family, his friends, his workspace, paintings that have just been finished, compositions he has mad...

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On Thursday 22 September at 6 pm, the exhibition The choice of happiness. Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue, will be inaugurated at Forma Fundation for Photography.
 
One of photography's precocious prodigies, a genial enthusiast and a professional of happiness. All of the above was photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, who achieved fame during the sixties, on the threshold of his eight decade, when his photographs reached the spaces of the MOMA in New York.
 
He was born into a wealthy French bourgeois family at the beginning of the twentieth century...

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On Tuesday 21 September at 18.30, Fondazione FORMA per la Fotografia inaugurates Robert Doisneau, Dal mestiere all’opera and Palm Springs 1960 in collaboration with the Cartier-Bresson Foundation and Atelier Doisneau of Paris.

"I have enjoyed myself throughout my life. I have managed to build my own personal theatre."
Robert Doisneau

A poet of everyday life who preferred the soft-spoken, sharp roughness of simple rhymes to the forcefulness of epic verse, this was Robert Doisneau.
From 21st September to 17th November, Fondazione Forma pays homage to this charming and clear-sighted...

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The exhibition at Forma will present an ample selection of photographs by the Dutch artist, taken during her travels in Africa, Viviane describes this continent through Flamboya's colours, a tropical tree with bright and fleshy flowers. These images bear witness to the photographer's research, aimed at rediscovering her early years spent on the African continent, yet it also provides an opportunity for her to rethink photography, its rules and meanings, poised between testimony and memory. In Viviane Sassen's splendid photographs we certainly do not find those stereotypes westerners are used to applying to Africa, this is a different, more...

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Pour la première fois est présentée au public la collection extraordinaire de Paolo Morello, avec sa série d'oeuvres vintage prints qui racontent l'histoire de la photographie italienne de l’ après-guerre jusqu'à la moitié des années Soixante-dix.

Ce sont les années où la photographie en Italie a une incidence sociale maximale, en absolu;  en effet, dans l'après-guerre la télévision n'avait pas encore pris l'avantage et les informations passaient à travers la presse illustrée et donc, à travers la photog...

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