On show at Palazzo Reale in Milan, untill the March 4th 2018, James Nachtwey. Memoria the first showing of an international tour that will take the exhibition to the most important museums worldwide. It is an original production and the greatest retrospective ever made of his work and it is promoted and produced by the Municipality of Milan – Culture, Palazzo Reale, Civita, Contrasto and GAmm Giunti.
Curated by Roberto Koch and James Nachtwey himself, the exhibition offers a remarkable individual and collective reflection on the theme of war. Arranged in seventeen different sections, the two hundred photos on display offer visitors a wide selection of James Nachtwey’s most significant reportages: from El Salvador to Gaza, from Indonesia to Japan, Romania, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, the United States (including the extraordinary testimony of the 9/11 terror attack) and many other countries. It ends with a very topical reportage on immigration in Europe: Memoria collects the shots with which Nachtwey tells us about the cruelty of war, the violence of terror, and the empty look of despair.
James Nachtwey (Syracuse, NY, 1948) has devoted his whole life to documentary photography on the most extreme conditions in human life, often very close to becoming hell on earth. He is the epic witness to the cruelty of war, as testified by the photos on exhibit at Palazzo Reale. Memoria is an exhibition featuring the photos of the most important photo-reporter of the last few decades, where through the alternating light and darkness an endless dance is performed. Nachtwey is an extraordinary observer of our contemporary world, as well as its most acute witness.
«I have been a witness – tells the American photographer – I have witnessed people who have had everything taken from them – their homes, their families, their arms and legs, their sanity. And yet, each one still possessed dignity, the irreducible element of being human. These pictures are my testimony».
James Nachtwey. Memoria
Palazzo Reale, piazza Duomo, 12 - Milan (Italy)
1 December 2017 – 4 March 2018
opening times: Monday, 2,30 pm - 7,30 pm | Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, 9,30 am - 7,30 p.m. | Thursday and Saturday, 9,30 am - 10,30 pm | Holidays: Tuesday 7th December, 9,30 am - 10,30 pm; Friday 8th December, 9,30 am - 7.30 pm; Sunday 24th December, 9,30 am - 2,30 pm; Monday 25th December, 2,30 pm - 6,30 pm; Tuesday 26th December, 9,30 am - 7,30 pm; Sunday, 31st December, 9,30 am - 2,30 pm
admission fee: standard 12,00 € | discounted 10,00 € for groups of minimum 15 and maximum 25 persons, for people over 65 years old, children and youth from 6 to 26 years old, disabled people, holders of the annual Musei Civici Milanesi Card, members of TCI Touring Club with card, members of “Lunedì Musei” (Museo Poldi Pezzoli and Museo Teatrale alla Scala), military personnel, off-duty Law Enforcement officers, teachers, holders of Giunti Card and Amici di Forma | discounted 8,00 € ticket holders of Musei Lombardia Card Milan | special discounted 6,00 € for all types of schools, groups organised directly by Touring Club and FAI (no booking fees will be charged to them), National Civil Service Volunteers with identification card, journalists with valid press card, special concessions, employees of the Municipality of Milan with badge (any other accompanying guest is subject to standard ticket payment), Civil Service Volunteers working within the Municipality of Milan with identification card | discounted family ticket, one or two parents 10,00 € each, with child from 6 to 14 6,00 € each | free admission for children 6 and under, one leader per group, two accompanying teachers per school class, one accompanying person for each disabled visitor, one accompanying person and one guide for Touring Club groups, employees of Milan’s Department of Landscape and Architectural Heritage, journalists with valid press card accredited by the press office, ICOM members, licensed tourist guides with license card, employees of the Exhibition Dept. of Palazzo Reale, members of the supervisory board and Fire Brigade
info: +39 199151121
mostre@civita.it
www.palazzorealemilano.it
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published on 2017-12-09 in NEWS / EXHIBITIONS
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