PAOLO DI PAOLO. Fotografie ritrovate
23rd October 2025 - 6th April 2026

On the centenary of the birth of Paolo Di Paolo (1925–2023), Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, in collaboration with Marsilio Arte, presents the retrospective dedicated to one of the great masters of Italian photography of the twentieth century.

The PAOLO DI PAOLO exhibition. Photographs found, edited by Giovanna Calvenzi and Silvia Di Paolo, from 23 October 2025 to 6 April 2026, returns to the public the forgotten work of an author who was able to tell, with delicacy and depth, the Italy of rebirth after the Second World War.

Over 300 photographs –including many unpublished and for the first time also in colour, together with archive materials, period magazines and original documents – make up a path that embraces Di Paolo’s entire artistic parable, from his beginnings in 1953 to intense activity with the most important newspapers of the time. The exhibition also includes a special and unprecedented focus on Genoa and Liguria, territories repeatedly told by the elegant and poetic gaze of the photographer who in 1969, struck by a profound personal and professional crisis, drastically abandoned the scene.

Di Paolo was the photographer most loved by Mario Pannunzio, historic director of the weekly Il Mondo, where he published 573 photographs in 14 years, and assiduous collaborator of the weekly Tempo. Through his reporting, he narrated Italy and the world, documenting social changes, common faces and celebrities: from Pier Paolo Pasolini to Anna Magnani, from Lucio Fontana to Giorgio de Chirico, from Sophia Loren to Marcello Mastroianni.

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