Genoa celebrates one of the most important masters of twentieth-century photography, Art Kane (New York, 1925–1995), on the centenary of his birth and thirty years after his death.

His work was published in renowned magazines (Life, Vogue, Esquire) and profoundly influenced photographers of subsequent generations, who appreciated his free, visionary, and innovative approach (for example, his use of color).

The exhibition traces Kane’s entire creative career through over 100 works organized into sections that explore every aspect of his multifaceted output: from portraiture and the nude to fashion and advertising, from his involvement in the world of rock, jazz, and pop music to his reflections on the social and political issues that ignited the American conscience in the 1960s and 1970s, and his experiments “beyond photography.” A completely new section is dedicated to his most famous shot, Harlem 1958, a collective portrait of the most important jazz musicians of the time.