Sassari Brigade, the unpublished photos in the volume of General Andrea Di Stasio
One hundred and eighteen shots, not subjected to censorship, datable between 1912 and 1937, made by medical colonel Antonio Carruccio
On Friday, at 6 pm, at the Turin International Book Fair, the author Andrea Di Stasio, general of the Italian army, former commander of the Sassari Brigade in Sardinia, together with Sandro Solinas, collaborator in the editing of the work, and the publisher Carlo Delfino, will present the volume "Sassari and Sardinia Brigade. Unpublished photographs without censorship (1912-1937) by Antonio Carruccio".
Born from the collaboration between General Di Stasio, the Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento - Central Museum of the Risorgimento, the Central Institute of the Single Catalog and the Dessì Fulgheri family, the book collects a selection of 118 unpublished black and white images and uncensored, taken from the Carruccio-Dessì photographic collection discovered and enhanced by the author together with the sergeant major Sandro Solinas.
The collection of unpublished images created by medical colonel Antonio Carruccio, datable between the early and mid-twentieth century, offers an extraordinary contribution to the study of the history of the Great War and to the understanding of Italian society in the years preceding the conflict and in the subsequent decade.
The places photographed are those of the war front, Italy and Sardinia at the beginning of the century.
Carruccio's gaze is able to perceive, with sensitivity, the singularity of a few moments of collective daily life and the traces of change.
"The photographer, contrary to the regulations in force at the time, used his personal camera to independently create his own images, which documented his personal war experience. The photographs thus take on a documentary character, that is to say they become precise testimonies of the place and of the day in the soldier-photographer was there. These are therefore rare, unpublished and uncensored images. In fact, a 1917 directive issued by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces prohibited the taking of images relating to situations during the conflict that could provide intelligence elements to the enemy ", wrote Professor Pizzo.
(Unioneonline / F)
