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di Maurita Cardone   I volti segnati dal lavoro, le insegne su cui campeggiano nomi e cognomi dal suono familiare, simboli religiosi, gesti noti: lo sguardo scorre sulle immagini e riconosce i segni di una storia collettiva, quella degli italiani d'America.   La mostra Reframing Italian America: Historical Photographs and Immigrant Re...

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L'amaro in bocca resta sempre. Anche quando la gloria ti ha consacrato nel gotha della fotografia internazionale.   Lui, figlio di questa Sicilia ingrata, che dimentica. O meglio che non vuole ricordare i figli d'oltreoceano che sono diventati ambasciatori della terra da cui sono partiti. Lui che voleva donare la sua collezione al Museo di M...

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In 2014, the American Academy in Rome celebrates the centenary of its main building, the only project designed by the legendary architectural firm McKim, Mead White in Europe.   Marking the occasion, this exhibition of drawings, plans, photographs and other archival material, curated by noted architectural historian Marida Talamona, traces t...

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Le fotografie scattate tra il 1943 e il 1946 in Italia dai U.S. Signal Corps e quelle d'archivio dell'Istituto Luce, esposte al Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi fino a gennaio, documentano la fine della seconda guerra mondiale, il clima di festa e speranza non privo di sentimenti, ancora, di paura, smarrimento e contrasti.   Due diverse visioni...

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Always around the 50 States searching for traces of Italy, today our trip stops in Connecticut. Among the things important to remember about Italians in Connecticut, we cannot fail to mention Ella T. Grasso: the daughter of Italian immigrant parents, in 1975 she was the first female to be elected governor of a US state (all three previous female go...

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The Embassy of Italy in Washington is pleased to announce the photo contest Grazie Italia.* The competition will run from 21 September to 21 October 2015 in collaboration with the Italian diplomatic and consular network in the United States. Submit your best 'shots' that relate to Italy, taken anywhere in the world. All images submitted will b...

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Intently, as if preparing for a final exam, Jaclyn Zaragoza studied the stark, black-and-white photos on the walls, photos that described an America a quarter century before she was born.   Martin Luther King Jr. Richard Nixon. Bobby Kennedy, ice skating with Ethel just weeks before his assassination. Idealistic young people p...

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An exhibition of over 100 images that explores the experience of photographer Roberto Villa (in attendance at the opening) on the set of The Arabian Nights (1974) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, documenting the director's work in the Middle East (Yemen and Iran,) but also offering one of the last portraits of a land that was about to become a war zone. &n...

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When: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 — 7 p.m.Where: Pembroke Community Center — 128 Center St., Pembroke, MA, 02359 Photographer Renee Ricciardi has been working on a photographic series titled "Bees in Italy" where she has been traveling to farms throughout Italy documenting honeybees, their keepers, and the organic lives they share.   Read mor...

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Ravello, Costiera amalfitana Lunedi 6 ottobre, alle ore 10,30, presso le rinnovate sale di Palazzo Tolla, sede del Municipiodi Ravello, si inaugura la mostra dal titolo From Italy to America. In esposizione ritratti di uomini, donne e paesaggi immortalati dal fotografo italo-americano Anthony Riccio e protagonisti di un reportage che ha fatto tappa...

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