Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Roberto Mutti.

Artists:
Marina Ballo Charmet, Gabriele Basilico, Manfredi Bellati, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Antonio Biasiucci, Carmelo Bongiorno, Werner Bishof, Piergiorgio Branzi, Denis Brihat, Christopher Brroadbent, Maurizio Buscarino, Roberto Capa, Carla Cerati, Gianna Ciao Pointer, Elio Ciol, Francesco Cito, Cesare Colombo, Lanfranco Colombo, Pierre Cordier, Mario Cresci, Luciano D’Alessandro, Mario De Biasi, Franco Fontana, Evaristo Fusar, Maurizio Galimberti, Giovanni Gastel, Luigi Ghirri, Mario Giacomelli, Paolo Gioli, Mimmo Jodice, Mario Lasalandra, Giuseppe Leone, Giorgio Lotti, Fosco Maraini, Nino Migliori, Ugo Mulas, Studio Negri, Giovanni Negri, Mauro Negri, Costantino Squassoni, Umberto Negri, Toni Nicolini, Carmelo Nicosia, Enzo Nocera, Joe Oppedisano, Giuseppe Pessina, Gianni Pezzani, Giuseppe Pino, Francesco Radino, Alexandre Rodtchenko, Fulvio Roiter, Edoardo Romagnoli, Roberto Romano, Tazio Secchiaroli, Gorge Tatge, Oliviero Toscani, Giuliana Traverso, Arthur Tress, Franco Vaccari, Amedeo Vergani, Luigi Veronesi, Georgij Zelma, Max Al’pert, Mark Markov-Grinbert, Ivan Sciaghin.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition was a tribute to Il Diaframma, a pioneer gallery devoted solely to photography, founded by Lanfranco Colombo in Milan in 1967. Being a photographer himself, Colombo promoted photographic culture organizing shows in his gallery and realizing publications and encounters. This presentation concluded his career as a photographer, simultaneously celebrating his activities as patron. The exhibition brought together works by outstanding photographers who over time showed at Il Diaframma. Their photographs are now housed in the Photographic Archive of the Fondazione 3M Italia – an archive that includes thirty thousand transparencies, daguerreotypes, original prints and negatives. Throughout its history, Il Diaframma introduced prominent Italian photographers, showcased alongside a images by renowned international photographers, from France, United Kingdom, Japan, Spain, Germany and the United States. This show thus puts forward a brief history of photography, spanning from the 1960s to date, with a variety of images ranging from portraiture and naturalistic photography to fashion and still life.

Partnerships:
Exhibition organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in partnership with Fondazione 3M, Milan.

Catalogue:
Mutti, Roberto. Il Diaframma di Lanfranco Colombo. I Maestri della Fotografia. Milano: Omega, 2005.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Catalogue includes prefaces by Lanfranco Colombo, Antonio Pinna Berchet and Thomas Krens (Direttore, Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim). Essay by Roberto Mutti and statements by Carlo Bertelli, Silvano Bicocchi, Philippe Daverio, Giuseppe Marcenaro, Massimo Mussini, Piero Racanicchi, Fausto Raschiatore and Italo Zannier.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2005 .12.