Througt the lens of Maria Cristina Massari Zavaglia

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:31:53 +0000
Num. 33

One thousand un published photographs taken by the

"Really beautiful. Some of them could be shown in a photography competition. We could organize a show at San Fedele". This note was left by Giorgio Boschetti (the maestro of the darkroom) in a box of photos by Maria Cristina Massari-Zavaglia, the last descendant of the family of the Dukes of Fabriago, and sounded like an official presentation to the world of photography. A world that the daughter of Duke Francesco Massari had approached with the help of the great photographer Paolo Monti. The photos remained in the box, along with tens of other boxes containing over one thousand splendid black and white images that reveal the talent of Maria Cristina Massari. The photos were held in the custody of the Massari family lawyer, Paolo Ravenna. But, above all, he was the friend that was entrusted with the expressed will of those red boxes full of photographs sent by post over the years, one by one: to put them on permanent display in her city. Because the existence of the last descendant of that important family is represented by her travels around the world and the trophies captured in the lens of her camera.