Walter Benjamin affirmed that “that all document of culture is at the same time a document of barbarity.” Popes, princes, and kings with absolute power, exerted despotically and even with cruelty, entered posterity associated and thanks to the artists at their service, artists sometimes anonymous and that rarely left a self-portrait.
With the arrival of photography more than a hundred and fifty years ago, apart from other factors – democratization of society and the techno-industrial revolution – visual artist became well-known stars, recognized around the world. Artists that enjoyed a freedom of creation they had never had before and that promoted a visual revolution without precedents. But lets remain in the Present…