Pia Zanetti – A retrospective of 6 decades

Tanzende Männer — Autumn Fair in Basel, Switzerland, 1960. Pia Zanetti

Mädchen schaut in die Kamera — The people of Pozzuoli in fear of a volcanic eruption. Pozzuoli, Italy, 1970 . Pia Zanetti

Tanzendes Paar — Dance club, Brussels, Belgium, 1967. Pia Zanetti

2 Nonnen in New York — New York, USA, 1963. Pia Zanetti

Man with hat in USA — At a rodeo, Chicago, USA, 1967. Pia Zanetti

Frisch and Lady — Max Frisch during the shooting of the film Zürich - Transit, Zurich, Switzerland, 1965 und New York, USA, 1963. 109

Nordirland — In the Protestant neighborhoods of Belfast, people dance and celebrate with exuberance on Orange Day. Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1966. Pia Zanetti

Cassius Clay — Cassius Clay alias Muhammad Ali at a Black Power gathering in the Watts ghetto, Los Angeles, USA, 1967. Pia Zanetti

Detroit — Automobile production at the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, the so-called "Motor City". Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903 und invented the assembly line in 1913. Dearborn, Detroit, USA, 1967. Pia Zanetti

Davis and Arzo — Film actress Bette Davis (1908-1989) Cernobbio, Italy, 1988 and a view of Ersilia F.'s workplace at her home in Ticino, Arzo, Switzerland, 1986. Pia Zanetti

Caslano, TI — Spinning mill in Ticino. Caslano, Switzerland, 1971. 109

Frau mit Kinderwagen — Everyday life in London, England, 1968. Pia Zanetti

Fischer in Südafrika — In Cape Town, day labourers wait for work and for boats to return with their catch. Cape Town, South Africa, 1968. Pia Zanetti

South Africa in Stadium — Spectators in the arena of the Durban Roodepoort Deep gold mine. Miners perform dances on Sunday. Roodepoort, South Africa, 1968. Pia Zanetti

Näherei in Arzo — Italian cross-border commuters work as seamstresses in the Carristar shirt factory in Ticino. Arzo, Switzerland, 1986. Pia Zanetti

indien — At home, Tiruppur, India, 1997. Pia Zanetti

Nina in einem Auto — Thu Thao was 18 months old when she came to Switzerland from Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), and was adopted by Pia and Gerardo Zanetti. In 1997, 25-year-old Nina returned with Pia Zanetti to Ho Chi Minh City and to the Phu My orphanage of her origin. Vietnam, 1997. Pia Zanetti

Frau zeigt den Weg — Munyak was located on a peninsula on the southern shore of the Aral Sea until the middle of the 20th century. But the lake was deprived of water from its two tributaries for decades in order to turn millions of hectares of Uzbek desert into cotton fields. As a result, life on the Aral Sea has become impossible. Munyak, Uzbekistan, 1999. Pia Zanetti

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