Mario Calabresi. With open eyes. When history was caught in a photo

The book recently published by Mario Calabresi, titled A occhi aperti (With open eyes) (published by Contrasto edizioni), becomes an exhibition with an exclusive production forLa Venaria Reale: Calabresi himself guides us, room after room, to discover the work of the photographers he has met, their special and intense approach to reality, and their unforgettable images. 
Punctuated by his words, this irresistible journey gives us the chance to look at the world from a privileged vantage point: through the eyes of photojournalists.
Mario Calabresi has a passion for photography, but also and most notably for journalism and reality. He went on a very special journey: a profound and fascinating journey in recent history, looking for the “eyewitnesses” who narrated, through their work and their willingness to explore the folds of news as we know it, some extraordinary moments of our time with a series of images taken with their eyes open on the world. 

What would we know, what would we imagine, what would we remember of Prague’s invasion by the Soviet Union without the images, stamped in our eyes, of an “anonymous photographer from Prague” whose name, we later discovered, was Josef Koudelka? Justice was served through those photos, that told the world about a springtime of freedom full of freshness and idealism.There are facts, pieces of history, that exist only because there is a photograph that tells their story. (Mario Calabresi)

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