Eyes wide open

Lightweight, small, easy to use. The revolutionary Leica camera was born in June 1914 when Oskar Barnack, an engineer at Leitz, a microscope manufacturing company, constructs the world’s first camera that, by using a 35mm movie film, can take photos quickly and at relatively low costs. Since it was launched in 1925, Leica has been a
faithful companion of some of the most important photographers in the world, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, and Robert Capa, as illustrated by the traveling exhibition ‘Eyes Wide Open! 100 years of Leica photography’ from November 17th to February 18th 2018 in the Ala Brasini wing of the Complesso del Vittoriano in Rome.