Photoansa 2020, images of a year that we will not forget

The coffins

, many, too many, transferred on army trucks from Bergamo to other cemeteries in Lombardy.

, harnessed in protective devices, bending down to comfort a sick person.

, fragile and disoriented, in a deserted and livid Saint Peter's Square from the incessant rain.

coming down alone, mask on his face, from the Altare della Patria.

And then again

and as if crystallized in their dramatic beauty,

,

,

and the big backpack in an empty gym,

, the epicenter of the pandemic.

And the institutions, taken by surprise, busy day and night to cope with the emergency, from the press conferences of Prime Minister Conte to illustrate the Dpcm to the drawn faces and the daily ritual of epidemiological data, to the 'denier' Trump who takes off his mask from the face.

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Three appointments in which the volume will be presented, in collaboration with Terna and Coop Lombardia.

It starts on

with a focus on 'The trench of the salue', on

 'The resistances', while the theme on

will be 'The crisis and the restart'.

The appointments will be

Between public and private, hope and despair, momentum and controversy, the shots return the sense of the immense tragedy that has swept the planet.

But there is also room for the Black Lives Matter movement, with its fists raised in Minneapolis against the police, the clashes, the flood of protesters in the square on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream.

And for the race for the White House, with Kamala Harris's smile brighter than the white suit and the jubilation of Joe Biden's supporters.

"Usually books talk about the past, remote or close. These pages are in full swing and try to account, with the greatest possible fidelity, of the ongoing drama", writes

in the preface to the volume

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"Many intellectuals hope that this tragedy will leave its marks on Italian society. And it is a shared wish, sub specie aeternitatis. But immediately we would like to see evidence of the country's mobilization, in the hope of being able to dedicate to the much announced, and not yet seen, restart - concludes - the ANSA book of 2021 ".

In closing, 'There was a turning point': a journey through some of the millions of images in the archive of the agency, which in 2020 turned 75, to tell the changes that have led Italy, year after year, to being one of the richest and most advanced countries in the world.