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title: THE EXTENSION OF THE AFTERLIFE: INITIAL PANEL

subject date: 2005-06-28

caption: ANTI-COMMUNISM ''In free countries many newspapers, different opinions. In the afterlife, behind the Iron Curtain, many newspapers, one opinion''. Some visitors, including a priest in a cassock and Saturn who seems to be commenting, observe the initial panel. The ''Exhibition of the Afterlife'', organized by the ''propaganda and press studies'' (Spes) office of the DC (exhibition with an impressive title that referred to life in countries beyond the Curtain), had been the target of controversy for the mystified images, in fact some Roman citizens had recognized themselves in the photos of the alleged ''slaves of communism''. It had happened that, to illustrate the miserable conditions in socialist countries, photos taken in Rome had been abusively used, as if they had come from Eastern countries. At the end of a tour in northern and southern Italy, the exhibition landed in the capital, in Termini station, and here some Romans recognized themselves in the subjects on display, unmasking nature as anything but ''tragically true and real'' and ''rigorously controlled'' of documents concerning the alleged oppressed peoples in Eastern European countries. Conceived on the occasion of the elections linked to the so-called ''fraud law'', the event nevertheless contributed to raising awareness of the Cold War. Photograph by Ando Gilardi (1921 - 2012) #andogilardi from a large series created for ''Scandalo dell'al di qua'' (see → Mostra dell'Aldilà), report by MONS published in ''Lavoro'', illustrated rotogravure newspaper of the CGIL, Rome, n. 21 of 24 May 1953.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

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object name: 45495

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multiplying price: 1.00

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continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Cinquanta

subject century: XX

subject epoch: Guerra fredda

technique: Fotografia

id: 5868

file name: FSNgilardi_45495.jpg

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