Corriere Art Collection celebrates Nino Migliori on his 100th birthday with a special artwork for la Lettura: an image that turns the gaze into a meeting place between photography, memory and discovery.
A woman’s face emerges from a wall in Paris. It is not a conventional portrait, but an image found within an advertising poster and transformed, through Nino Migliori’s gaze, into something entirely different: a threshold between the person portrayed and the person looking.
The title, Eyes on Me, captures the essence of this encounter. It is an invitation to look and to keep looking until the image reveals something beyond its surface. Light becomes memory, the face becomes a story, and photography becomes a way of discovering the world.
A century of photography
Born in Bologna in 1926, Nino Migliori is one of the great masters of Italian photography. On 29 September, he celebrates his 100th birthday: a remarkable milestone in a career defined by curiosity, experimentation and an extraordinary freedom of vision.
Throughout his work, Migliori has continually explored the possibilities of the photographic medium, moving across different techniques and visual languages. His research ranges from sophisticated experiments with photosensitive materials to an ethical approach to photojournalism, always placing people, experience and observation at the heart of the image.
For Migliori, photography has never been confined to a single style or technique. It is a field of experimentation: a way to question reality, transform it and discover new possibilities within what surrounds us.
Eyes on Me
The cover created for laLettura can be seen as a reflection of this lifelong approach.
Taken from an image encountered on a Parisian wall, Eyes on Me transforms an everyday fragment of the city into a visual experience. The female face becomes more than a subject: it creates a relationship with the viewer, inviting us to consider what it means to look and to be looked at.
In this exchange lies one of the defining qualities of Migliori’s work: the freedom to approach the world with curiosity, without trying to possess it or define it once and for all.
Eyes on Me is therefore both an invitation and a declaration to continue looking, questioning and discovering.
A special artwork for Corriere Art Collection
To mark Nino Migliori’s centenary, laLettura dedicates a special collector’s edition to the artist and his enduring contribution to Italian photography.
Through the QR code included with the collector’s edition, readers can access the NFT-certified digital version of Eyes on Me via the Corriere Art Collection app.
The work thus becomes part of a collection that brings together art, publishing and new forms of digital collecting, preserving the vision of an artist who has spent a century exploring the endless possibilities of the image.
At 100, Nino Migliori’s invitation remains as vital as ever: look at the world not to possess it, but to continue discovering it.