Great photographers telling the world at Mudec

very early to see photography as a compass for tomorrow.

If we are to inherit this world, we have to know it, we have to understand it, we have to love it. And so I believe that photography is really the fairest, most balanced language

to be able to write this story through images'

"This, in particular, is a photograph of perhaps the greatest photographer

of the world, Henri Cartier-Bresson, the founder of the Magnum agency

together with Robert Capa, who would later go on to publish a seminal book entitled 'Images à la sauvette' thanks to this photograph

of contradiction and negation, he will go on to theorise his moment

decisive; i.e. 'a photograph can be taken when the eye, heart and mind are on the same line of sight'.

Because this art is not simply a mirror of reality, but rather the idea of it. A concept, this of fiction or fiction as it may be, that the exhibition "100 photographs to inherit the world, 200 years of photography for 100 shots. To remember who we were and where we are going, through the lens of the greatest photographers of all time and today" is on view at the Museum of Cultures in Milan until 28 June.

And it is precisely through the lens of the greatest photographers of all time and right up to the present day that the exhibition illustrates with care and prepares - making an emblematic excursus on this form of language, even in its tight selection - a true documentary fresco from its origins to the present day, capable of traversing with studied levity the twists and turns and protagonists of a tale now two centuries old.