“Lost world. Photographs 1954-1968” is the title of the exhibition by the Molise photographer Paolo di Paolo in progress at the MAXXI in Rome. An extraordinary portrait of an Italy lost and rediscovered in these splendid photos. Not to be missed.

Anna Magnani with her son on the Circeo beach (in photo), Pier Paolo Pasolini at the Monte dei Cocci in Rome, Sofia Loren joking with Marcello Mastroianni in the Cinecittà studios: these are just some of the splendid shots by Paolo Di Paolo on exhibition at the MAXXI of Rome until 8 September 2019.

Not only famous people from the world of cinema and entertainment, art or fashion, but also ordinary people populate the lost world of the photographer from Molise. That Italy of the fifties and sixties, which was awakening after the end of the second world war.

Paolo Di Paolo’s artistic career is short but intense. Born in 1925 in Larino, the small town of lower Molise, Di Paolo moved to Rome to study history and philosophy. In 1954 he fell in love with photography.
He has collaborated with several magazines, publishing numerous photographic reports from Italy and the world.
In 1966 he decided to retire and to interrupt with photography.

Brunella Muttillo

Photo: Paolo Di Paolo, Anna Magnani in her villa in San Felice Circeo (Rome), 1955, © Archivio Paolo Di Paolo

“Paolo Di Paolo. Mondo perduto. Fotografie 1954-1968”
by Giovanna Calvenzi
17 April 2019 – 8 September 2019
MAXXI Museum, Rome