Pinault saves Condé Nast photos from the crisis and exhibits them at Palazzo Grassi

A timeline from the 1910s to the end of the 1970s in an exhibition entitled Chronorama, curated by Matthieu Humery. You can see the transition from illustration to photography, the way not only techniques change, but taste, in fashion and interiors, in architecture and in the choice of stars

When empires collapse, someone is needed who can save works of art from burning cities. This is what luxury superheroes are for today, to save what can be saved from those bourgeois institutions that are starting to die and put them in a display case. The Pinaults, from the ship at the mercy of the waves that is Condé Nast, have exposed a part of the monumental photographic archive of those magazines that have shown and made history, set trends, narrated consumption, launched careers, such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. Publishing slows down its crisis by selling the family jewels, signed by Irving Penn or Helmut Newton. And so, to showcase the new purchase, the new addition to the collection, over four hundred photos are hung in the halls of Palazzo Grassi in Venice, selected from the thousands of shots now in the hands of Pinault.