Libri e Fumetti Racchiude più di cento anni di storia sul reportage e sulla documentazione fotografica il libro del giornalista e storico catanese "L'istante e la storia. Reportage e documentazione fotografica. Dalle origini alla Magnum" che sarà presentato l'1 dicembre alla Sala Phil Stern del Museo dello sbarco in Sicilia di Catania
The book by Ezio Costanzo The instant and history contains more than one hundred years of history on reportage and photographic documentation . Reportage and photographic documentation. From the origins to the Magnum (Le Nove Muse Editrice, 2017), in which the author, journalist and historian, starting from the origins of the reportage and considering each shot document and witness of the time, reviews the many protagonists who have immortalized local conflicts, world wars, revolutions, social life and changes in the whole world.
Ezio Costanzo
The volume, created with the contribution of the Oelle Mediterraneo Antico Foundation , will be presented on Friday 1 December , at 10.30 am, in the Phil Stern room – Museum of the landing in Sicily 1943 , inside the Le Ciminiere complex in Catania. Together with the author there will be the speakers Carmelo Nicosia , photographer and director of the Oelle Mediterraneo Antico foundation, Enzo Tromba , professor of theory and method of the mass media of the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania and Fabrizio Villa , photojournalist.
Ezio Costanzo, L’Istante e La Storia
«This book – explains the author – is aimed at anyone who wants to deepen the historical events of photographic reportage and photography as a document, from the origins to the birth of the French agency Magnum (1947). A long history between the 19th and 20th centuries, ranging from the technical aspects to the personal stories of the protagonists, from the various sectors of the photographic story to archival sources, from local civil conflicts to world wars ».
“This research work, illustrated with many images – states in his introduction to the volume Carmelo Nicosia , photographer and professor of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania – stops right in 1947, the year of birth of the Magnum, because after the war in then, with the expansion of sources of information and newspapers, photography and reportage have profoundly changed, also from a technological point of view. Ezio Costanzo has thus divided the research into two parts, of which this text represents the first half, the historical one, starting from 1842, the year in which a news item, the Hamburg fire, is immortalized as a document ».
