I ragazzi, le ragazze - photographs of children by Nino Migliori, circa 1950-59

From the series Gente del Delta.

From the series Gente dell'Emilia.

 Il Garzone del Barbiere, from the series Gente del Sud.

From the series Gente dell'Emilia.

Cefalù, from the series Gente del Sud.

 Bimbi al Mare.

Portatore di Pane, from the series Gente del Sud.

La Voce della Madre.

From the series Gente dell'Emilia.

From the series Gente del Delta.

Il Tuffatore, from the series Gente dell'Emilia.

I Ragazzi della Via.  (Three images.)

From the series Gente dell'Emilia.

From the series Gente del Sud.

Bambine, from the series Gente dell'Emilia.

Periferia.

From the series Gente dell'Emilia.

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Nino Migliori (29 September, 1926, Bologna), Italian photographer. Self-taught, he began taking photographs in 1948, his best-known work exemplifying the Neorealismo movement that dominated photography as well as film, literature, and other art forms in Post-WWII Italy. By the end of the 1950s he had completed a celebrated group of series - Gente dell'Emilia, Gente del Sud, Gente del Delta, Gente del Nord - that documented life in provincial Italy, an Italy that still struggled with poverty, still clung to its traditions, even while the country experienced a decade of recovery and radical transformation. 

As of this writing, he is ninety-four, still living and working in the place of his birth, Bologna.