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Italia

title: EXHIBITION OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE CENSORSHIP OF THE PCI

subject date: 2005-06-22

caption: ANTI-COMMUNISM Railwaymen comment on the panels on which the writings ''photograph removed in respect of the democratic rights of every man'' and ''photograph canceled because censored by the PCI'' stand out; the writings are found, wrapped in barbed wire, on some installations where they replace the cardboard blow-ups of Italian citizens (without their knowledge filmed and ''passed off'' as foreign victims of communism and socialism) after the legitimate protests; it is therefore not a question of political censorship, but of reparation for the violation of image rights. The fitters had replaced the templates with these signs, which however sounded like a clear admission of having violated these rights, as well as betraying the attempt to place the blame for their own naivety on the PCI, and had then been removed. The credibility of 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 the countries behind the Curtain), which presented itself as a The accurate and dramatic documentary review was now irremediably compromised, the scandal was being talked about in Italian and foreign newspapers: the promoter Hon. Giorgio Tupini had defended himself from the formal Polish protest for the false and outrageous representation of his country by proclaiming that before talking about false proof was needed; and the evidence had arrived. 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

file date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 45498

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Cinquanta

subject century: XX

subject epoch: Guerra fredda

technique: Fotografia

id: 5870

file name: FSNgilardi_45498.jpg

keywords

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