La ri-fondazione della Libia balbiana (1933-1939). Il poderoso racconto fotografico del "Ventimila"

Abstract In October, 1938, at the height of national success and international repute who invested his cross governorship in Libya, Italo Balbo began the epochal “mass” transmigration of the settlers National Rural in Italian Overseas. And with intelligent capacity management, activated at the same time a targeted companion camera aimed at disseminating this biblical passage of the Mediterranean by more than twenty thousand Italian peasants, so busy in the spectacular "demographic colonization" of Libya. A visual reporting elaborate in more than two hundred shots in black and white, a photo package then appropriately selected to set up the special edition of the unique number of the magazine «Libya» (1939), by illuminating title: “The twenty thousand. Photographic documentary of the first mass migration of settlers in Libya for the plan of colonization demographic intensive - Year XVI/1938”. Eighty-four full-page images, with no text, and cadenced by redundant captions nationalpopular, will reproduce the epic story of the heroic mass of “italianissimi” peasant-soldiers, engaged in the civilizing re-conquest of those territories “other”.