Curated by Carlotta Crosera (Vigevano, 1980), University of Milan


The work of Giacomo Pozzi-Bellini(1907-1990), a great photographer and documentary filmmaker, was presented through a gallery of his photographic portraits, set to narrate a life of friendships and encounters with some of the protagonists of 20th century cultural history, including: Eugenio Montale, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Vittorio De Sica, Emilio Cecchi, Alberto Arbasino, Jean Genet and Jean Renoir. The exhibition featured the documentary Il Pianto delle Zitelle (1939), the only testimony of his activity as a director, presented in the original version (without the cuts imposed by Fascism) that won him first prize at the Venice Film Festival. To complete the portrait, the great art photographs, destined to become the privileged terrain of Pozzi-Bellini’s experiments, and the history in images of his association with critic Giovanni Testori, whose vision of works of art, and that of painting in particular, is profoundly linked to that of Pozzi-Bellini.