La photographe Lisetta Carmi a documenté avec assiduité les
transformations sociales de Gênes au cours des années 1960. Cette
sélection de photographies témoigne de la modernisation de la ville et du quotidien de ses habitants, dont la célèbre
série sur les travestis, qui fit scandale à l'époque.
Over the course of the 1960s, Genoa underwent a radical transformation
process, due to the reconstruction in the wake of the bombing suffered
during WWII and the euphoria linked to the economic boom. Lisetta Carmi
was there, and despite being Genovese herself, she manages to portray the
city with the gaze of an "outsider". And so in her photographs, we come
across the breath of the port, the alleyways of the old town, the traces
of the war, the cemetery of Staglieno, but also everyday life with
children playing in the street, adolescents taking up rock and roll, right
up to her famous photos of transvestites which caused a scandal at the
time, and which today show us the great empathy between the photographer
and the photographed. The book is at the same time a demonstration of
Lisetta Carmi's photographic research and a document depicting a Genoa
which is no more, and which is brought back to life here in her harsh
black and white. The accompanying texts are provided by Giuliano Scabia,
Giovanni Battista Martini and Giovanna Calvenzi.
Nouvelle édition de l'ouvrage paru en 2019 (ISBN 978-88-99385-64-4).
Lisetta Carmi (1924-2022) est une photographe italienne dont les œuvres, par leur puissante charge sociale, ont anticipé et
influencé la photographie réaliste des années 1970. Ces dernières années,
d'importantes rétrospectives de son travail ont été organisées, notamment
à Palazzo Ducale à Gênes.
