An infinite gallery of faces and portraits that cross time and speak to everyone. ‘Razza Umana’ arrives at Palazzo Blu, the Oliviero Toscani Studio project, which from 17 April to 29 June will bring to the museum’s halls a multitude of photographic portraits collected over the years by the great master of photography and brilliant communicator and his team. The first exhibition dedicated to one of Oliviero Toscani’s most famous projects, which opens in Italy, a few months after his death. Razza Umana is a socio-political, cultural and anthropological study that portrays the morphology of people to observe their peculiarities and characteristics, capturing differences and similarities. Oliviero Toscani, together with his students and collaborators, has traveled the world portraying human beings in squares and streets, setting up a travelling photographic studio each time and collecting, to date, an archive of around 100,000 images. Toscani had also brought one of these sets to Pisa, in the months when Palazzo Blu was being built, between 2007 and 2008, meeting dozens of people right in the rooms of the palace, who lent themselves to being portrayed by his author's lens.
More than 500 images, in various sizes, are exhibited today at Palazzo Blu for the first time and are part of the exhibition itinerary that, alongside the ‘local’ faces, is accompanied by the many faces collected around the world. The project is completed by the story of some of the iconic images that Toscani created and that have marked his extraordinary career. The ‘Razza Umana’ project continues today, thanks to a dedicated team, always remembering the motto of its creator who loved to say: “I am moved by the uniqueness of each individual and for this reason I photograph human beings in their many expressions”. In the spirit of a project that continues, on the day of the inauguration of the exhibition, April 17, the photographic set of ‘Razza Umana’ will once again be set up at Palazzo Blu, ready to welcome new faces to portray.
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