Rome
The italian capital, where Pinna moved following his family in 1935, determines a sense of continuity in the career of the sardinian photographer. In Rome Pinna took part to the Resistance Movement against the nazi-fascist occupation, making a first amateurish shot during the entry of the allied troops in town. In Rome Pinna became a militant of the Italian Communist Party and invented, after having directed the photography of documentary film (Canto d'estate, direct by S.Ubezio and P.L. Martinori), a blitz-photography strictly political, that certainly was, as admitted by the same Tazio Secchiaroli, the forerunner  of the "paparazzismo".
 
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In Rome Pinna founded in 1952, with De Martiis, Garrubba, Sansone e Volta, the cooperativa Fotografi Associati. In Rome  Pinna met Franco Cagnetta, founder with Ernesto De Martino and Diego Carpitella of the Centro Etnografico Italiano, who introduced him to the anthropological photography. Following Cagnetta, in the spring of 1956, Pinna partecipated in a memorable survey on the roman "borgate". Still in Rome, Pinna manteined his most important relations with the italian press, first with the political reviews and with "Il Mondo", later, in the early sixties, with  "L'Espresso" and "Panorama". Always in Rome, Pinna attended the cinematographic milieu, alternating the activity as a reporter on the movies set ("Radiocorriere TV", "L'Espresso", "Sunday Times", "Panorama"), to the proper set photoghrapher. 
Culture, fashion, politics, young people, show biz, popular habits, jobs, daylife and nightlife: a diary lasted thirty years, made of powerful photos wich underlines the contrast of a city with a glamorous past and a confusional present. Through Pinna's eyes the perfect portrait of Rome, microcosme and paradigm of all postwar western capitals, facing their crises, the lack of ethic values.
 
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