Tullio Farabola was one of the first Italian photojournalists. Son of an artist (his father specialized in photo-portraits), he was born in Milan on 8 October 1920 and, after the officers' school, he enlisted in the army. In 1942 he was transferred to the Istituto Luce in Rome and here he met Adolfo Porry Pastorel, who became a teacher for him, as well as a role model. Back in Milan at the end of the war, he founded his own agency. In the early post-war years he told of the difficulties of the city exhausted by bombing and hunger, poverty, the black market, the attack on Togliatti and then the return to life of the citizens, the first open-air dances, the people who bathroom in Navigli. In short, the agency became one of the best known in the country and collaborated with the main dailies.
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