Barzacchi, Branzi, Camisa, Casiraghi, Cattaneo, Chini, De Antonis, De Biasi, Donzelli, Farabola, Giacomelli, Gilardi, Migliori, Pasquali, Patellani, Petrelli, Pinna, Roiter, Samugheo, Sellerio, Sorrentino, Volta, Zavattini and Zovetti are some of the authors in this edition, which shows the role of photography at the height of the neorealist movement in Italy. The book is divided into four sections. Realism in the Fascist era shows how the Fascist revolution used photography as a means of mass communication, with images as proof of Mussolini's statements, though there is also room for images showing the backwardness, poverty and popular customs of the country. Misery and reconstruction presents works born of the need to build a new identity, while Investigating the territory records the appearance of new illustrated publications, ethnographic studies and the wish to know how people live in distant provinces. Photojournalism and the illustrated press shows how photography was used to tell current events and as an instrument to learn about faraway places.