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lt would be possible to find echoes, reminiscences of this lesson as well
as a certain bourgeois "Linkmalincholie", which, on the other hand,
goes so well with the present-day crisis of values, but the outcome of the
Carnisio-Lumbau documentary indisputably asserts the originality of the
two reporters: the expositive values take the upper hand of the formal or
cult-concerned ones, reaching the highest significance, a significance
which can be attained by a really modern photography: contributing with
a conscious expressive charge of piercing communication and realist
representation - in an epoch already endemically "optical" - to modify
and to enrich our vision of the world.

MARGINAL NOTES

More than a real bibliography I add some titles of books I have been read-
ing for a long time, which buzzed in my mind during the drawing-up of
these pages. I dare suggest them to the reader, if not known already to
him, leaving out, at the same time, the known-to-all-and-sundry publica-
tions on the theme of old Milan, as well as the specific, still amazing and
interesting work of William Morris: A. Cederna, La distruzione della natura
in Italia (Einaudi 1975); V. Calzolari, II Verde nella città moderna (in "I
problemi della città", Sansoni, Firenze 1963); M.M. Cerasi, Città e perife-
ria (Clup, Milano 1973); Le Corbusier, Gropius and others: II cuore della
città (Hoeply 1956); Various: The Towns of Destiny - edited by A. Toynbee
(publishers Thames and Hudson, Eris editions 1969); W. Benjamin, L’ope-
ra d’arte nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica (Einaudi, VII ed. 1974);
G. Freund, Fotografia e società (Einaudi 1976); A. Gilardi, Storia sociale
della fotografia (Feltrinelli 1976). In addition for the amateurs of beautiful
photographic volumes: A. Sander, Menschen ohne Maske (Verlag C.J. Bu-
cher 1971); E. Atget, Lichtbilder (Rogner and Bernhard 1975).

My thanks are due to Dr, Gino Farina for having kindly opened for me the
not-yet-dusty archives of his still vivid recollections foreshortening a world
less dull of civic virtues.
I dedicate this modest introduction having nothing else to offer, to my
godson Marco and to his dear family who made me meet, with an incom-
parable generosity, in years of so long ago, a still olden and hospital Milan.