Pioneer. The Liguria Region exhibition for International Women’s Day
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The Liguria Region celebrates the 8th of March with “Pioneer”, a photographic exhibition held in Piazza De Ferrari (Genoa) from the 8th to the 19th of March 2023. The exhibition is focused on images of women from the Francesco Leoni photographic archive.
“Pioneer” is curated by Anna Dentoni and Clara Maria Fabbri, and it aims to recall fifty years of social history with many snapshots of women who have driven the change towards female emancipation. Which in many respects it’s still in progress.
Female workers, teachers, mothers, athletes and actresses… pioneers of a changing world that has been captured and represented by Francesco Leoni, a photographer attentive to customs, to work, to the anthropological and social change of Genoa. One of the greatest Genoese photojournalists of the 20th century.
Through installations in Piazza De Ferrari, the exhibition presents his shots and personality.
Leoni began its activity in 1937 and it soon became one of the most important sources for the historical memory of our city: the archive counts over three million negatives, as an extraordinary iconographic resource.
The archive can only be visited by appointment at the Galata Museo del Mare in Genoa.
![Aprile 1937 Donne e bimbi in posa a bordo del Conte Grande, Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-1.jpg)
Women and children on board of the Conte Grande, Genova
![8 marzo 1976 Il Sindaco di Genova Cerofolini, in occasione della Festa della Donna, consegna la mimosa alle donne dell’UDI, Movimento Femminile in difesa della donna](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-2.jpg)
The Mayor of Genova Cerofolini gives mimosa flower to the members of “UDI, Movimento Femminile in Difesa della Donna”
![1967 Manifestante alla Marcia della pace](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-3.jpg)
Protester at the Peace March
![Maggio 1946Atlete che corrono a Villa Gentile, Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-4.jpg)
Female athletes running at Villa Gentile, Genoa
![Luglio 1937 Bambine ai Campi Solari con Maestra](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-5.jpg)
Girls at the Campi Solari with teacher
![Aprile 1959La prima istruttrice di scuola guida](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-8.jpg)
The first driving school instructor
![Maggio 1946Allenamento ginnico con la palla di una giovane atleta al campo sportivo di Marassi, Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-9.jpg)
Gymnastic training with the ball at the sports field of Marassi, Genoa
![Agosto 1936Lina Volonghi in veste di nuotatrice alle Piscine d’Albaro, Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-10.jpg)
Lina Volonghi as a swimmer at the Piscine d’Albaro, Genoa
![Giugno 1937Scherma femminile allo Stadio Carlini di Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-11.jpg)
Women’s fencing at the Stadio Carlini in Genoa
![Aprile 1938Ondina Valla al campo di atletica leggera a Rapallo](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-12.jpg)
Ondina Valla at the athletics field in Rapallo
![Agosto 1941Donna riparatrice di biciclette in Piazza Palermo, Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-13.jpg)
Woman repairing bicycles in Piazza Palermo, Genoa
![1938Donna sulla Leonardo da Vinci accudisce una tartaruga e alcuni leoni in gabbia](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-14.jpg)
Woman on the Leonardo da Vinci caring for a turtle and some caged lions
![Agosto 1938Guidatrice di idrovolante con Pietro Badoglio](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-15.jpg)
Seaplane driver with Pietro Badoglio
![5 dicembre 1964Donne Ufficiali Giudiziarie a Palazzo Ducale, Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-16.jpg)
Female Judicial Officers at Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
![1937Operaia addetta alla macchina in uno jutificio a Isoverde, Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-17.jpg)
![Febbraio 1960Polleria Ivaldi in Corso Buenos Aires, Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-18.jpg)
Poultry Ivaldi in Corso Buenos Aires, Genova
![Febbraio 1960L’edicolante Paolina Capitani in Piazza Dante, Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-19.jpg)
The newsagent in Piazza Dante, Genoa
![17 agosto 1971Annamaria Coselli, una delle prime controllore delle Ferrovie](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO-20.jpg)
Annamaria Coselli, one of the first controllers of the railways
![1978Aeroporto di Genova, hostess della British Caledonian](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-21.jpg)
Genoa airport, British Caledonian hostess
![9 aprile 1947Donne intente alla cucitura di vele nel porto di Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-22.jpg)
Women intent on sewing sails in the port of Genoa
![16 ottobre 1947Operaie del Pastificio Cassanello nel quartiere genovese di San Teodoro](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-23.jpg)
Workers of the Cassanello pasta factory in the Genoese district of San Teodoro
![Marzo 1947Operaie della Centrale del Latte di Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-24.jpg)
Workers of the Central Dairy of Genoa
![1947Congresso sul turismo a Rapallo](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-25.jpg)
Congress on tourism in Rapallo
![Donna Capitano di nave prima di salpare dal porto di Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-27.jpg)
![1952Sophia Loren eletta Miss Lido a Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-29-1.jpg)
Sophia Loren elected Miss Lido in Genoa
![Agosto 1969Patty Pravo al Covo di Nord Est di Santa Margherita Ligure](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-31.jpg)
Patty Pravo at the Covo di Nord Est in Santa Margherita Ligure
![21 maggio 1959Ester Williams a Portofino](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-32.jpg)
Ester Williams in Portofino
![Luglio 1958Michèle Morgan a Portofino gira “Racconti d’estate” con Mastroianni](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-33.jpg)
Michèle Morgan in Portofino for “Racconti d’estate” with Mastroianni
![Gennaio 1967Rosanna Benzi, prima donna vissuta in un polmone di acciaio](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-34.jpg)
Rosanna Benzi, the first woman to have lived in an iron lung
![20 Luglio 1957Wanda Osiris ad Alassio](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-35.jpg)
Wanda Osiris in Alassio
![1 settembre 1955La figlia di Lumière a bordo dell’Independence a Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-36.jpg)
Lumière’s daughter aboard the Independence in Genoa
![Febbraio 1956Gina Lollobrigida ad Alassio premiata per l’interpretazione de “La donna più bella del mondo”](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-37.jpg)
Gina Lollobrigida in Alassio awarded for interpretation of “The most beautiful woman in the world”
![26 agosto 1966Mina a Nervi, “A star of Italy”](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-38.jpg)
![Agosto 1937L’attrice Isa Miranda sul Transatlantico REX presso la Stazione Marittima di Genova](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-40.jpg)
The actress Isa Miranda on the REX ocean liner at the Genoa Maritime Station
![Anni ’50Sophia Loren in Riviera](https://lamialiguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FOTO-41.jpg)
Sophia Loren in Riviera