Snite Museum of Art acquires work by Magnum photographer Alex Majoli
January 25, 2021
Alex Majoli, Scene #2756, Novara, Italy, 2020, archival pigment print. Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. Milly and Fritz Kaeser Endowment for Photography, 2020.024
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame has added a photograph by Magnum photographer Alex Majoli from his The Eye of the Storm series. Created in Novara, Italy, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Scene #2756, Novara, Italy, 2020 captures the moment when a priest blesses coffins that have just arrived at the cemetery by Italian Army trucks from nearby Bergamo. Created in April amid Italy s early outbreak, this image brings into sharp focus the painful and tragic extent of northern Italy s suffering during the first outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Italy’s death toll was the highest in Europe during the first months of the outbreak, and the country could barely keep up with the transportation