A selection of black and white photography and film posters from the Lehigh University Art Galleries collection.  Curated by Ricardo Viera in collaboration with consultant curator Enrica Vigano of Milano Admira.

“Neorealism is generally associated with the cinema, the great Italian cinema.  The cinema of common people and places, of powerful sentiment and heroism, of a heartfelt pity for suffering and poverty; cinema through which Italy declares its desire for change, for truth, for redemption after the humiliations suffered at the hands of Fascism and the War.”

“Neorealism has not been a school, rather a set of voices. disclosing different Italies, unknown until then.  Without the diversity of those Italies, unacknowledged by one another, Neorealism could not have happened.”

-Consultant curator: Enrica Vigano

Selections from these important Neorealist films can be seen on the monitor outside the Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center:  Ladri di biciclette, 1948; Riso Amaro, 1949; Roma citta aperta, 1946; and Ossessione, 1942.