Political iconography of the Battle of Genoa

Luciano Del Castillo is a press photographer, who took a large series of pictures of the demonstrations organised on 20 and 21 July 2001 against the G8 Summit in Genoa. His image of a hooded man on an overturned car was published on the front page of the Corriere della Sera on 22 July. This is one of the main immediate framings of the stretched historical sequence known as "Genoa 2001". This triple-voice panel, following on from a roundtable, held on 10 September 2021 during the "Genoa 2001-2021" conference at the ENS in Lyon, opens his personal photographic archive in several directions: the Italian history of the past half century and the visual construction of the G8 days, analysed from rare sources of the autonomous movement of the 1970s collected and commented by Jacopo Galimberti; political symbolism and its iconographic survivals in history; and, first of all, the sensitive memory of a photographer, witness and actor of the Genoa counter-summit, narrated in a passage in his book Pesto alla genovese (2021), some of whose photos are shown here for the first time.