Mario De Biasi
Budapest 1956
Italian Institut of Culture, Strasbourg
September 12th – 30th
Museo dell'Arte fabbrile e delle Coltellerie, Maniago
October 15th – November 20th

Mario De Biasi (1923-2013) had been a protagonist of the European photography for more than 40 years. He had been working for many years for the magazine Epoca (with Enzo Biagi as director) in particular during the Hungarian revolution in 1956. He was sent to Hungary between October 23rd and 24th and remained there, the only European photographer with Erich Lessing, for hours under the fire of the revolutionists. He documented the arrival of the Soviet Army, the massacres, the violence, hanged people in the streets, the pain of the citizens. This brief journey produced rough images that testified the events that inflamed the Hungarian capital in October and November 1956. All over the world he photographed revolutions, famous people, countries, volcanic eruptions, North Pole's snow landscapes with minus 65 degrees. He presented many exhibitions in Italy and abroad, several workshops and published more than 40 books with his photos. In 1982 he was awarded with the Saint Vincent Award and in 1994 with the Friuli Venezia Giulia Fotograpfia Award. In 1995 this exhibition was realized with Italo Zannier as curator.