Date: Friday, November 13, 2015 - Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Hours: 6:00 p.m.

Site: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611

Organized by: IIC Chicago

In collaboration with: https://happenchance.eventbrite.com

Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-photographer, documented the exhausted, disoriented populations and war-ravaged architecture of Italy's small towns and villages during the Allied northward advance through the countryside in 1944-45. As a scout, translator and interrogator for the American 5th Army, Carrara, unarmed but carrying a camera, entered towns just as the remnants of the German army were departing. From one profound transitional moment to another, he was able to capture the implicit and understated life-changing drama evidenced by his presence. Carrara's war vision carries what John Burt described, in Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism, as the "inexhaustible inwardness" of its maker.

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Source: http://www.iicchicago.esteri.it/