PHotoESPAÑA presents the Carla Sozzani Collection for the first time in Spain

Between art and fashion shows a selection of 174 works from a total of 90 international photographers from the personal collection of Carla Sozzani, a key figure in fashion, art and design in Italy and an international icon.

Her vast collection brings together works from the 19th century to the present day and includes pieces by artists such as: Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, Masahisa Fukase, David La Chapelle, László Moholy-Nagy, Daido Moriyama, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Leni Riefenstahl, Paolo Roversi, Vivian Sassen, Alfred Stieglitz and Francesca Woodman, among others.

Starting today, Wednesday September 23rd, the exhibition Between Art and Fashion will be open to the public at CentroCentro, a space of ​​the Madrid City. Photographs from the Carla Sozzani collection. The exhibition is part of the Official Section of the XXIII edition of PHotoESPAÑA, an international photography festival, with which CentroCentro has collaborated annually since 2015.

This collection, curated by the Sozzani Foundation, is the result of 40 years of encounters and discoveries; an impeccable selection of images that make up the collector's personal vision of the world, the feminine and beauty. The exhibition does not present a closed concept since the collector herself has preferred to invite the public to walk through her life experience, together with her relationship with great photographers from around the world and her professional development in the world of fashion. The images reflect how you relate to this universe and how you view art.

With a great knowledge of the past of art and a natural instinct for trends, Carla Sozzani became known in the early 1970s for her bold eye not only for fashion, but also for photography.

Between 1979 and 1986 she was the director of specials for Vogue Italia, a revolutionary newspaper directed by her sister Franca, since 1988; in 1987 Carla Sozzani was appointed director of the Italian edition of Elle and later she opened a gallery, created a publishing house and invented a new concept with the 1991 opening of 10 Corso Como in Milan, in 1991, which she conceived as "a living magazine" . Her name always appears among the 500 most influential people in the fashion industry. The Fondazione Sozzani was founded in 2016 and is dedicated to the promotion of culture through photography, fashion and fine arts.