The others. The photography of Lisetta Carmi on display in Lecce

GIULIANA SCHIAVONE , juliet, July 21, 2022
The anthological exhibition Lisetta Carmi – Gli Altri presents in Lecce, in the spaces of the Carlo V Castle, the interesting stages of the photographer’s journey from 1960 to the end of the 1970s.
The exhibition, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Giovanni Battista Martini and Alessandro Zechini in collaboration with the Lisetta Carmi Archive in Genoa, is the first stage of a project that will arrive in the autumn at the Osvaldo Licini Museum in Ascoli. Over sixty black and white shots recounting the otherness: that of bodies and gazes, gestures and expressions on which life writes true, boundless and insolent multiple stories. The photography of Lisetta Carmi (Genoa, 1924) fixes the leaps in register, passes from one geography to another, climbs on the passions and feelings, on the slopes of irreverent moods, to embrace with the eyes the features of a taciturn, gaunt and shabby expression.
 
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