Between the first photograph (taken around 1880) and the final ones (taken somewhere between the 1950s and the 1960s) on display in the last exhibition hall, less than a century has passed. These images do not only take changed physical spaces back to the way they once were, but show different clothing, cars replacing carts, trolley buses instead of horse drawn trams...

Never, in the history of Europe, had such radical change come about in so few years.  Technological applications such as electricity, the telephone, radio, television, moped and car, to name but a few, changed forever – and more or less quickly, depending on the geo-economic area –  the centuries-old habits characteristic of country folk.

Bergamo too, albeit with differing intensity and in different ways, went through that historical whirlwind period where “everything changed” and the exhibition recounts that story, through the Sestini photographic Archive, looking not only at the physical changes to the town, but also changes to the lives of men and women.

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