At the Palazzo di Città in Cagliari the great retrospective dedicated to the famous photographer Robert Capa. 110 photographs on display.

Last moments to visit the City Palace of Cagliari the great retrospective dedicated to the famous photographer Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), which in recent months has been visited by approximately 16.000 people.

For the occasion, today, Sunday 6 October 2024, the exhibition will remain open until 21pm and during the day it will offer, in addition to the normal entrance, also 4 guided tours led by the art historians of the Cagliari Civic Museums, starting at 11, 15, 17 and 19.

Participation in guided tours is by reservation only via email to the email address: infoeprenotazioni@museicivicicagliari.it. Alternatively, call the number 070.6776482.

The exhibition, organized by the Municipal Administration of Cagliari - Department of Culture and Entertainment, with Silvana Editoriale and the contribution of the Fondazione di Sardegna, is curated by Marco Minuz.

Thanks to the collaboration of the agency Magnum Photos of Paris brings together 110 fotografie, thus ensuring a complete anthological journey. The exhibition will feature all the main experiences that characterize the work of the Hungarian photographer, a naturalized American: the Parisian years, the Spanish Civil War, the war experience between China and Japan, the Second World War with the liberation of Italy up to Montecassino, the Normandy landing, the Allied advance to Berlin, post-World War II Russia, the birth of the state of Israel and, finally, the conflict in Indochina, where Capa died prematurely in 1954.

A complete panorama that will provide the visitor with the opportunity to to know all the most important stages of this photographer's career. Acquiring, in these actions, a fame that allowed him to publish in the most important international magazines, among which "Life” and “Picture post“, with that style of photography that is powerful and touching at the same time, without any rhetoric and with such urgency that it pushes one to shoot a few meters from the battlefields, right into the heart of conflicts. His famous statement, in this sense, is: “If you haven’t taken a good photograph, it means you haven’t gotten close enough to reality.”

But Robert Capa's work was not limited to exclusively bearing witness to dramatic events, but also ranged into other dimensions not attributable to the suffering of war. The exhibition in fact explores the photographer's relationship with the world of culture of the time with portraits of famous figures such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote and Henry Matisse, thus demonstrating his ability to penetrate deeply into the lives of the people he immortalised.

A reminder is dedicated to his reportages dedicated to period films. After the end of the Second World War, it was the actress Ingrid Bergman who introduced Capa to the set of Lewis Milestone's 1948 film Arc de Triomphe, where he tried his hand at being a set photographer.

An exhibition to discover his photography far from the war and to better understand what he continually repeated: “Love people and make them understand it”.

Accompanying the exhibition is a monographic volume Silvana Editoriale.

Opening hours: 10am-18pm / Sunday 6 October only 10am-21pm.