World Photography Day: 5 photography exhibitions for fall-winter 2023

Today, August 19, marks World Photography Day, established in 2010 by Australian Korske Ara to commemorate the day on which the daguerreotype, or the first photographic process for developing images, was invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre with input from Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce. That was on August 19, 1837.

Major exhibitions in Italy have already been announced for the fall-winter exhibition season. Let’s see which ones.

Robert Mapplethorpe. Beauty and Desire.

From Sept. 23, 2023, the Museo Novecento in Florence presents its second major exhibition dedicated to photography, Beauty and Desire, curated by Sergio Risaliti, Eva Francioli and Muriel Prandato and set up on the first and second floors of the museum. On this occasion Robert Mapplethorpe (New York, 1946 - Boston, 1989), among the greatest exponents of twentieth-century photography, will be placed in an unprecedented confrontation with the shots of Wilhelm von Gloeden and a selection of photographs from the Alinari archive.
This exhibition project comes forty years after the great 1983 exhibition, which made Mapplethorpe’s work known in the Tuscan capital. The project is organized with the important contribution of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and the Alinari Foundation for Photography.

Vivian Maier

From September 7, 2023 to January 28, 2024, Bologna’s Palazzo Pallavicini will host in its halls the exhibition Vivian Maier - Anthology, organized and produced by Chiara Campagnoli, Deborah Petroni and Rubens Fogacci of Pallavicini srl with curatorship by Anne Morin of diChroma photography based on photos from the Maloof Collection archive and Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.
About one hundred and fifty original and Super 8mm photographs will be on display: these ultimw will give the opportunity to follow the gaze of Vivian Maier, who began filming street scenes, events and places as early as 1960. Visitors will be able to see 111 black-and-white photographs, to which 35 color photos will be added, divided into six sections for an extensive anthology.

Helmut Newton

From October 6, 2023 to March 3, 2024, the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome will host an extensive retrospective devoted to Helmut Newton (Berlin, 1920 - Los Angeles, 2004). Titled Helmut Newton. Legacy and curated by Matthias Harder and Denis Curti, the exhibition will show about 250 photographs, magazines and documents through which the uniqueness, style and provocative side of the photographer is to be told with a new look. Alongside the shots that have made history, appearing on the most important fashion magazine covers, a body of unpublished shots intends to reveal lesser-known aspects of his work. A specific focus will also be devoted to fashion shoots. Also exclusively featured will be a dozen images from shoots that Newton took in Rome itself.

Tina Modotti

From September 22, 2023 to January 28, 2024, the exhibition spaces of Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo will host an extensive monographic exhibition dedicated to Tina Modotti (Udine, 1896 - Mexico City, 1942), curated by Riccardo Costantini with the collaboration of Gianni Pignat and Piero Colussi. More than two hundred images will be exhibited together with films and documents, documenting the entire oeuvre of Tina Modotti focusing on the reconstruction of the only exhibition she directly held in Mexico City, in 1929, at which about sixty works were exhibited, more than forty of which will be present in the exhibition in Rovigo.

Jimmy Nelson

From September 20, 2023 to January 21, 2024, Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the photography exhibition Jimmy Nelson. Humanity, promoted by Comune Milano - Cultura, produced by Palazzo Reale and Skira Editore, in collaboration with the Jimmy Nelson Foundation, and curated by Nicolas Ballario and Federica Crivellaro.
Sixty-five large-scale photographs from the most famous cycles of Jimmy Nelson ’s (Sevenoaks, 1967) production will be on view. The exhibition project aims to document the creative evolution of the photographer who has spent his life traveling the world and photographing some of the most endangered indigenous cultures, chronicling their traditional customs and traditions.

Image: Helmut Newton, Vogue Italia. Como, 1996, detail © Helmut Newton Foundation

World Photography Day: 5 photography exhibitions for fall-winter 2023

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