{"id":17634,"date":"2026-02-24T14:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=17634"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:33:33","slug":"book-silvia-di-paolo-photography","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/book-silvia-di-paolo-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of photographer Paolo Di Paolo in a novel written by his daughter Silvia"},"content":{"rendered":"When 17-year-old Silvia crosses the threshold of the basement in search of skis and boots, she comes across a series of photographic negatives stored inside a cabinet, and everything changes. This hidden treasure, which soon captures Silvia\u2019s attention and guides her research, belongs to her father, Paolo Di Paolo, who years earlier chose to consign it to oblivion. These events form the basis of the novel <em>Qualcosa dovr\u00e0 succedere<\/em>, written by Silvia Di Paolo with writer and screenwriter Antonio Leotti, published by Marsilio Editori and due to appear in bookshops on 6 March 2026.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nMore than just a biography, the book describes the rise of a photographer from Molise who was able to immortalise, through his lens, the protagonists of Italian culture in the 1950s and 1960s \u2013 from Pasolini to Moravia, from Fellini to Anna Magnani \u2013 as well as the atmosphere in Italy in the aftermath of the Second World War.<br \/>\r\n<h2>THE BOOK BY SILVIA DI PAOLO<\/h2><br \/>\r\nIntertwining collective and personal events, the novel is also a tool for evoking the complex relationship between a father and a daughter, destined to be transformed thanks to photography. Now curator of the Paolo Di Paolo Photographic Archive, Silvia has contributed significantly to the rediscovery of her father\u2019s work, who passed away in 2023 at the age of 98. One example of this is the exhibition, curated together with Giovanna Calvenzi, in the Sottoporticato of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nOpen until 6 April 2026, the exhibition features around three hundred photographs, including some previously unseen early images and colour photographs, paying tribute to the career of an author who was able to interpret his own time and capture the faces of those who lived in it \u2013 from artists and intellectuals to ordinary people.","protected":false},"featured_media":16306,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categorie_magazine":[343],"class_list":["post-17634","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie_magazine-words-from-marte"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The story of photographer Paolo Di Paolo in a novel written by his daughter Silvia - 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