To
collect postcards and photographs of a period, place them in time, organize
them in context of the events of a place, that too is a way to write history!
Period photographs serve to fix in time the costumes, the culture and the
traditions of a locality. They help recover the past and give a sense to the
present, that helps overcome the “disorientation” of which the new generations,
above all, are victims.
Members of a community, be it large or small, are tied together by a sense
of identity as a collective dimension, that carries on its uniqueness and
its distinctiveness through specific customs and traditions acquired over
a long history. Through these images of a past period, furnished from the
collection of Corrado Guzzi and by the monthly Storicittà,
one grasps how micro-history is an indispensable complementary component of
macro-history.
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