How to get up and get going after a pandemic and a global lockdown? By trying, through the art of great photographers, to depict the ways people have lived and faced the changes in society over the last thirty years. The catalogue accompanies the exhibition presented at the Museo Archeologico Regionale of Aosta (27 May -10 October 2021), with a narrative in images of the society of the last thirty years, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic. It is inspired by the 1955 exhibition The Family of Man held at the MoMA to seek in art for the basis of a new beginning after the tragedy of World War II.
Parallel with this, the new exhibition tries to find a way to start over again after the immobility and loss of bearings caused by the pandemic. The issues addressed are of extraordinary relevance: globalization, immigration, the affirmation of virtuality, sustainability, gender issues and, finally, the pandemic. To highlight the ways that Italian photographic culture has described and interpreted the events and impressions of these years, the catalogue, like the exhibition, offers an all-Italian dialogue. The history of the language of photography evolves together with the ‘human story’ in contemporary society, through auteur shots by the major protagonists of contemporary photography (Ferdinando Scianna, Giovanni Gastel and Letizia Battaglia), news images and photographs by emerging talents such as Antonio Rovaldi and Niccolò De Giorgis.

French translations by Jérôme Nicolas and Silvia Guzzi for Scriptum, Rome.