65 years after the Normandy landings, an important stage of the Second World War, Rome hosts a photo exhibition that tells the last phases of the war through images.
“Shots of War”, an exhibition that will be held at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome from the 3rd of July to the 30th of August, gathers the pictures taken in 1944 and 1945 by two important war photographers, Lee Miller and Tony Vaccaro, pictures that will give all the tourists who will travel to Rome a more concrete image and a direct testimony of some epochal events, from Normandy Landings to Berlin liberation. Lee Miller and Tony Vaccaro experienced war personally, but in two different ways, and with their photos they conveyed the tragicalness of war, making us get indignant and think.
Two lives and work experiences very different from each other, which will cross in Rome in this interesting exhibition, which will certainly attract many people with a passion for history and photography, but not only them (book now discount guest houses and hotels in Rome, the city is always overcrowded in summer). On the one hand Lee Miller, war correspondent for British Vogue since 1940 and correspondent for the US Army in 1944, a courageous woman and a famous photographer, who had lived in Paris becoming friend of many surrealists and intellectuals. On the other hand Tony Vaccaro, a young soldier of the US Army coming from Italy, who decided to become a press photographer when he felt the need to express himself, but he was unable to do that through words because of his poor knowledge of the English language. The pictures taken by Lee Miller and Tony Vaccaro will be displayed in the same exhibitory space at the Scuderie del Quirinale, but on different walls, to compare two different ways of telling, two different styles and points of view, which are both useful to learn something more about that historical period. On the one hand the photos taken by Lee Miller, who stands out for her good and refined technique, and who was interested above all on what happened out of the battlefields, focusing on the faces of common people: nurses, soldiers, victims and the injured. On the other hand Vaccaro, the soldier who personally experienced war, who was in contact with death daily and who portrayed the atrocities of war through images. Both photographers became witnesses of important events: Lee Millers followed the US Army during the siege of Saint Malo, Paris liberation, Alsace and Luxembourg campaigns, the taking of Munich (here she portrayed Hitler’s abandoned house), the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau. Tony Vaccaro, who landed at Ohama Beach on the 6th of June 1944, portrayed, with his photos, the advance of the allied through France, Belgium and Germany.
To help visitors follow the paths of both photographers and to expand on the historical context, the exhibition also includes a reconstruction of the Normandy landings made with aerial photographs of the Royal Air Force and a historical introduction realised by Umberto Gentiloni, who curated the exhibition together with Marco Delogu.
If you visit the exhibition (you can stay in a camping in Rome), with the same ticket you will have the possibility to watch the screening of a film.
Tickets: 5 euro, reduced 4 euro
Date: 3rd July – 30 August 2009
Location: Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy
This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Discount accommodation in Rome. For any information, please visit Travel to Rome or for travel information have a look to 3 stars hotels in Rome.
“Shots of War”, an exhibition that will be held at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome from the 3rd of July to the 30th of August, gathers the pictures taken in 1944 and 1945 by two important war photographers, Lee Miller and Tony Vaccaro, pictures that will give all the tourists who will travel to Rome a more concrete image and a direct testimony of some epochal events, from Normandy Landings to Berlin liberation. Lee Miller and Tony Vaccaro experienced war personally, but in two different ways, and with their photos they conveyed the tragicalness of war, making us get indignant and think.
Two lives and work experiences very different from each other, which will cross in Rome in this interesting exhibition, which will certainly attract many people with a passion for history and photography, but not only them (book now discount guest houses and hotels in Rome, the city is always overcrowded in summer). On the one hand Lee Miller, war correspondent for British Vogue since 1940 and correspondent for the US Army in 1944, a courageous woman and a famous photographer, who had lived in Paris becoming friend of many surrealists and intellectuals. On the other hand Tony Vaccaro, a young soldier of the US Army coming from Italy, who decided to become a press photographer when he felt the need to express himself, but he was unable to do that through words because of his poor knowledge of the English language. The pictures taken by Lee Miller and Tony Vaccaro will be displayed in the same exhibitory space at the Scuderie del Quirinale, but on different walls, to compare two different ways of telling, two different styles and points of view, which are both useful to learn something more about that historical period. On the one hand the photos taken by Lee Miller, who stands out for her good and refined technique, and who was interested above all on what happened out of the battlefields, focusing on the faces of common people: nurses, soldiers, victims and the injured. On the other hand Vaccaro, the soldier who personally experienced war, who was in contact with death daily and who portrayed the atrocities of war through images. Both photographers became witnesses of important events: Lee Millers followed the US Army during the siege of Saint Malo, Paris liberation, Alsace and Luxembourg campaigns, the taking of Munich (here she portrayed Hitler’s abandoned house), the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau. Tony Vaccaro, who landed at Ohama Beach on the 6th of June 1944, portrayed, with his photos, the advance of the allied through France, Belgium and Germany.
To help visitors follow the paths of both photographers and to expand on the historical context, the exhibition also includes a reconstruction of the Normandy landings made with aerial photographs of the Royal Air Force and a historical introduction realised by Umberto Gentiloni, who curated the exhibition together with Marco Delogu.
If you visit the exhibition (you can stay in a camping in Rome), with the same ticket you will have the possibility to watch the screening of a film.
Tickets: 5 euro, reduced 4 euro
Date: 3rd July – 30 August 2009
Location: Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy
This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Discount accommodation in Rome. For any information, please visit Travel to Rome or for travel information have a look to 3 stars hotels in Rome.
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