contessanally: Venice: Casa dei Tre Oci – Rene Burri and Ferdinando Scianna.

Copryright Rene Burri / Magnum Photos - Courtesy Tre Oci

Los Angeles, California, USA – 1984

The full flavor of tradition in the image of a man walking through the Ghetto

Venice: Casa dei Tre Oci – Rene Burri and Ferdinando Scianna. At the Casa dei Tre Oci, until January 8, two exhibitions dedicated to two masters of the history of photography: Rene Burri and Ferdinando Scianna. “Rene Burri. Utopia”, organized by Magnum Photos in collaboration with the Casa dei Tre Oci, and curated by Michael Koetzle, and “Ferdinando Scianna. Il Ghetto di Venezia 500 anni dopo”, curated by Denis Curti. The show of work by Ferdinando Scianna exhibits the photographs taken for the Fondazione di Venezia and specifically realised for the Tre Oci on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice.

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“Photography was and is a bridge between us and reality. In order to fix an instant. Today there is a wall (of images) that, paradoxically, no longer allows us to see the world. Submerged by millions of photos, we have lost our memory.”

Ferdinando Scianna

Emanuela Bassetti and Denis Curti

Giampietro Brunello, Cesare De Michelis, Giorgio Baldo and Plinio Danieli

Silvia Dainese Gris and Frida

Casa dei Tre Oci

Ferdinando Scianna - Il Ghetto di Venezia 500 Anni Dopo

Paola Bergna and Enrico Palandri

Beatrice Rosenberg

Pierre Rosenberg

Copyright - Rene Burri / Magnum Photos – courtesy Tre Oci

Casa dei Tre Oci

Rene Burri - Utopia

A worker from Nordeste shows his family the new city on inauguration day. In the background: the National Congress building by Oscar Niemeyer. Brasilia, Brazil – 1960.

"The enormous social changes taking place in our age of technology reflected in music, painting, literature and architecture are casting a new face for humanity.Tracing these developments, and conveying my thoughts and images of them, is what I consider to be my job.”

Rene Burri