ROSPHOTO presents the lecture by Walter Liva "Italian Photography in European Context"

Walter Liva - coordinator of the Centre for Photographic Research and Registration (CRAF) and curator of the "Italy, 1946 - 2006: From reconstruction to the Millenium" exhibition, which will be shown at ROSPHOTO exhibiiton halls from 21 February till 29 March 2009.

CRAF - The Centre for Photographic Research and Registration was founded in 1993. The CRAF performs historical-scientific researches on friulian authors and territories; carries out initiatives for the improvement of photographic culture in all its respects (e.g. the international exhibition of Spilimbergo Fotografia/ Spilimbergo Photography); promotes photographic campaigns on/about the regional territory; plans the acquisition and preservation of photographic funds.
Among the latest acquisitions there are: the series of pictures taken between 1922 and 1926 by Paul Scheumeier on behalf of the Institute of Romance Glottology of Bern; a series of prints made by Ugo Pellis between 1925 and 1935 for the Italian Linguistic Atlas; the whole series of pictures taken by André Kertesz in Gorizia between winter 1914 and spring 1915. The collection also includes the archive of Aldo Beltrame, who was one of the founders of the «Gruppo Friulano per la Nuova Fotografia»/ «Friulian Group for New Photography»; the Crocenzi fund, made up of thousands of negatives, 3000 original photographs by representative authors of the Italian post-war photographic culture (Balocchi, Cavalli, Giacomelli, Mulas, Scianna et al.); the collection of letters with authors and personalities (1947-1983) of the Italian culture and a library with numerous and important photography books.