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Exhibitions

The rooms of the Estense Castle host one of the most important masters of twentieth-century photography

The Estense Castle in Ferrara will host one of the most important masters of twentieth-century photography, Art Kane (New York, 1925-1995), on the centenary of his birth and thirty years after his death.

His work has been published in famous magazines (Life, Vogue, Esquire) and has profoundly influenced photographers of subsequent generations, who have appreciated his free, visionary and innovative approach (for example, his use of colour).

The exhibition retraces Kane's entire creative career through over 100 works arranged in sections that delve into all aspects of his multifaceted production: from portrait and nude genres to fashion and advertising, from his participation in the world of rock, jazz and pop music to his reflections on the social and political themes that inflamed the civil conscience of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, up to his experiments "beyond photography". A completely new section is dedicated to his most famous shot, Harlem 1958, a collective portrait of the most important jazz musicians of the time.