Daniela Trunfio
FONDAZIONE ITALIANA PER LA FOTOGRAFIA 1985 – 2006

Description

A book/document on the cultural adventure of the Italian Foundation for Photography written by one of its most present witnesses. The chronicle of the activities, the personal pleasure of important meetings, to leave an exhaustive trace of what has been one of the strongest and most interesting realities in the panorama of cultural life in Turin and beyond. In its 12 years of activity, the Italian Foundation for Photography has organized 170 exhibitions, 10 editions of the International Biennial of Photography, 4 editions of Photodiffusion, presenting 36 European museum institutions. It has generated an archive of 167,000 photographic exhibits and a library of over 5,000 volumes. The didactic activity in four years has educated over 24,000 students in the image.
“I had many difficulties starting this book. One of the reasons is closely connected with the personality of the writer. I have always preferred to listen more than speak, I prefer silence to loud noise, I believe in the intimate value of people and not in their ability to appear.If we add, then, the strong sense of self-criticism that has accompanied, and many times castrated my actions, the difficulty becomes evident.
But a more pressing motivation prevailed in me: the conviction that this story is very particular and that it repeats itself, unfortunately very often, in the cultural landscape of our country. And then there is the desire to leave a mark, at least for my children, who have lived this story or rather perhaps endured it (them) together with me, with the hope of being able to pass on to them some values ​​in which I strongly believed, and a feeling, in my opinion indispensable: passion; but not the one that blinds, which has a limited duration, which is sometimes linked to possession, but the one that is able to support your choices, the one in whose name you make sacrifices, the one on which you shape your life, even and above all in its rational part. This book contains some personal notes that intertwine with the documentary chronicle of what has been done, and a final appendix that tells of how everything was thought to be destroyed a few years ago.
I have deliberately given a lot of breathing room to the photographic part, since I believe that in the images we can read the important paths we have taken to try to spread culture and open Turin and Italy to Photography (…)” (from the introduction by Daniela Trunfio )