The author of the first exhibition is Paolo Brillo and its subject is Bob Dylan. Brillo has collected shots of the singer-songwriter since 1989, taken with a disassembled and hidden camera while attending more than a thousand concerts.

Almost an obsession for Brillo, who created a sort of epic of Dylan’s Never Ending Tour which resulted in the 250 shots of the book No Such Thing As Forever.

Organized in collaboration with Milan’s Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea Gallery, the exhibition includes 40 images from the book and a gem too: Dylan’s photo at his last concert in Milan in July 2023.

In his three decades of constant and passionate documentation, Brillo has produced a repertoire in which he has captured the rock star’s looks and gestures, despite the fact that Bob Dylan’s concerts are phone-free.

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  Paolo Brillo, Bob Dylan, Padua 15.6.2010, ink-jet printing on fine art paper, 2010-2023, cm 40x60

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  Paolo Brillo, Bob Dylan, London 22.10.2015, ink-jet printing

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  Paolo Brillo, Mick Jagger, Berlin 10.6.2014, ink-jet printing on fine art paper, 2014-2023, cm 30x45

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  Paolo Brillo, Nick Cave, Lucca 12.7.2013, ink-jet printing on fine art paper, 2013-2023, cm 30x45

ITALIAN FASHION Identity, transformation and gender imaginaries (1960-1980), organised in collaboration with the CSAC Archive – Communication Study Centre and Archive and curated by Lucia Miodini, tackles the transformation of the fashion system between the late 1960s and the 1980s by also investigating its communication in a phase in which women and men merged stylistically with the same language.

Atelier Albertina, Giorgio Armani, Krizia and Versace are just some of the names that contributed to building this new fashion conception.

Thanks to the materials preserved in the Fashion Archives of the CSAC, the exhibition represents the intertwining of makeover culture, media and gender studies, emphasising the role of multidisciplinarity in fashion research.

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  Callaghan Caumont Beach Collection Capri ’69, 1969-1970. Black and white photographic print on silver bromide paper, Gianni Turillazzi mm. 295 X235 D043683S

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  Atelier Clara Centinaro. Clara Centinaro tries on a wedding dress, undated. Photographic black and white print on silver bromide paper; Interphoto Azienda Italiana per la stampa e Rastelli mm. 300 X226 D042299S

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  Callaghan Caumont Beach Collection, Spring/Summer 1969. Photographic black and white print on silver bromide paper. Gianni Turillazzi- Bob Krieger mm. 294 X234 D043681S

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  Atelier Albertina. Men's Knitwear-Sweater, undated (1960-1965). Photographic black and white print on silver bromide paper; Armando Aldanese mm. 300 X240D001236S

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  Callaghan Beach Collection, Spring/Summer 1979. Photographic black and white print on silver bromide paper, Bob Krieger mm. 300 X237 D043679S

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  Atelier Albertina. Creazioni Albertina Haute Couture Knitwear – Ventaglio collection, (1967-1968) Photographic black and white print on silver bromide paper, mm. 300X218 D001228S

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  Atelier Albertina. Fashion Show, 1958-1959. Photographic black and white print on silver bromide paper, Publifoto Roma mm. 240X184 D001226S

The third exhibition taking place at Mercanteinfiera is not photographic, but is definitely worth being photographed. It is dedicated to an accessory – patented in 1795 – that was considered as essential in the luggage of an early 20th century gentleman.

We are talking about the corkscrew, which is presented in its infinite variations (also by designers such as Gio Ponti) in the exhibition In vino veritas: The infinite shapes of the corkscrew, organised in collaboration with the Musei del Cibo (Food Museums) of the Province of Parma.

THE 1950s – American Stories of the Great Magnum Photographers is another photo exhibition you can visit in Parma, from 6 October at Palazzo del Governatore.

Dedicated to the American culture of the 1950s, the exhibition features some eighty photographs from the Magnum Photos archive as a preview of the first edition of the Winter Jamboree: the new winter format of Summer Jamboree, the international music and culture festival of America in the 1940s and 1950s scheduled from 7 to 10 December 2023 at Fiere di Parma.

The exhibition also presents unpublished shots by photographers such as Werner Bischof, Philippe Halsman, Inge Morath, Cornell Capa, Bruce Davidson and Eve Arnold.

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  USA. 1958. Girls in a movie theater.

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  USA. Long Island. Port Jefferson. High school students at the local coffee shop on an after school date. 1956.