The Italy everyone recognises – Mediterranean yet restless, elegant yet strongly popular, cinematic yet real – has been captured in a series of iconic images. Snapped on busy streets, amid the chaos of battlefields, or on the edge of a football match, these photographs freeze wildly different moments and lift them into collective memory.
1980s Sicily, Milan’s turbulent Years of Lead, postwar Abruzzo, a paparazzi-crowded Mediterranean island: the following images chronicle a nation in flux, seen through the lenses of photography’s most revered icons.
