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"Mario Magajna: Photographer", guided tour

You are invited to join us at the regular guided tour of the exhibition "Photographer" by the photojournalist Mario Magajna, who was entirely dedicated to his photographic vocation.

Saturday
21
Apr 2018
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Jakopič Gallery
Adults, students, seniors
Trieste, 1.–7. 7. 1961, NŠK OZE, in. 3865/33
Trieste, 1.–7. 7. 1961, NŠK OZE, in. 3865/33 © Mario Magajna

From the end of World War Two right up to his retirement, Magajna exhibited a clear preference for contemporary subjects. Yet, despite having been created over the course of fifty years, largely as photographic commentaries for the Primorski dnevnik newspaper, the messages conveyed by his photographs remain highly relevant today. Magajna’s photographs bear witness to his search for an expressive language of his own. The photographic medium enabled him to establish trusting, empathetic contact with people, and this, in turn, enabled him to get to know them better and present them in a more original way. It is this that gives Magajna’s photographs their special charm and lyrical quality.

This exhibition focuses on a selection of Magajna’s works that most clearly reveal his main motivations: his unconditional commitment to photography as a vocation and his deep desire to immortalise everything happening in Trieste and its surrounding area. Yet despite these basic preoccupations, over the years he developed a unique photographic language, artfully combining narrative (pieces of news, events, stories) and testimony (a kindly, if naïve, form of poetry, both simple and direct).

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