Garolla's work runs alongside the history of Italy during the years of strong social change after the war. He became a protagonist of Italian practice in the fifties and sixties, in a time marked by the golden age of illustrated magazines and by the still limited spread of television.

He belongs to a new generation of reporters who managed to join elegance and discretion in telling the world of entertainment and communication as well as the social and cultural life of their time, giving back an image of a people in need of rediscovering that it belonged to a nation.