The “Circolo Fotografico La Gondola” has been founded in 1948, when the post-war years saw the flourishing of a variety of artistic trends which were to find wide scope in the neo-realistic movement. In photography as well, a renewal movement found its way, in opposition to the idealized and “conservative” vision advocated by the photographers belonging to Photo Club La Bussola. La Gondola, founded by Paolo Monti, Gino Bolognini, Luciano Scattola and Alfredo Bresciani, characterized itself by its ability to mediate between formalism and neo-realism, developing a prevailingly “lyric-realistic” style in photography. In the new vision echoes of Otto Steinert’s subjective photographie could still be found, as can be seen in Paolo Monti’s work.