Born in Signa in 1928, Italian photographer Piergiorgio Branzi was raised in Florence, a city that “looks stern”, in which “color is just a pleasant accessory, a filler, although it may appear splendid”. A city that was “born from two stone quarries: one for ‘pietra serena’, the color of gray graphite, and the other “pietra dura”, the listless ocher of Palazzo della Signoria”.
This is how the great Tuscan photographer and journalist explains how his preference for the essential nature of black and white began, and became the means for him to represent and express the reality around him.
Branzi took his first photos with a 1950s' Galileo Condor. His works have earned him great notoriety in Italy and abroad, traveling around the world: from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to the Guggenheim in New York, from the Fine Art Museum in Houston to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, from the Tate Gallery in London to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.
These fascinating photos were selected from his work that he documented everyday life if Italy in the 1950s.
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| White wall with small window, 1953 |
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| Cliff, Ischia, 1953 |
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| Boy of Ischia, 1953 |
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| Arena under the snow, Florence, 1954 |
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| Alley in Via del Corso, Florence, 1954 |
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| Alley in Via del Corso, Florence, 1954 |
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| Black wall, 1954 |
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| Main square of Burano, 1954 |
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| White pigeon, 1954 |
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| Easter in Tricarico, 1955 |
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| Easter, Campobasso, 1955 |
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| Scanno, 1955 |
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| The clock of Comacchio, 1955 |
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| The first mass, Naples, 1955 |
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| Vicolo dei Donati, Florence, 1955 |
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| Contrada dell'Oca, Siena, 1956 |
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| Wedding in Valenza, 1956 |
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| Wedding in Valenza, 1956 |
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| Adriatic, 1957 |
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| Alley of Naples, 1957 |
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| Beach bar, Senigallia, 1957 |
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| Milan fair, 1959 |
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| Shooting range, Florence, 1959 |
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