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cm 60 x 90 | 23.6 x 35.4 in.
Edition 19 of 20
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If today the Naviglio is the scene of nightlife, in the 1960s it maintained the memory of an ancient Milan crossed by waterways. Always far from the traps of nostalgia (because the good old days were not so good), Virgilio Carnisio dwells on the simple harmony of the façade of a house reflected on the surface of the canal, but knows how to surprise with the figure of the woman washing clothes leaning against a stone slab, ‘brellin’ in Milanese. The gaze focuses on her, on those ancient gestures that still survive and smell of reality. On 13 January 1985 it was Sunday, at the San Siro stadium the Milan team was playing against Como and the spectators ended up being distracted (not the visitors, who won 2-0) because the snow was whitening the field and would continue to fall for four days, covering the entire city. For a photographer like Carnisio, a thousand possibilities opened to capture spectacular images like this one, which captures from afar the crossing of the pedestrians walking across Piazza del Duomo on the path traced in the snow. The photograph, which alludes to both the new landscape and the industriousness of a city that never stands still, became the cover of the volume Under the Snow of Milan that Carnisio published in the following months.
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