In the immediate post-war period, artists and intellectuals became increasingly involved in the Italian anti-fascist and anti-capitalist social and political life and were close to the world of labour. They drew inspiration from the observation of reality with ideological motivations, with a view to developing a narrative vocabulary which found its expression in a homogeneous poetic, Neorealism, and in a variety of arts: painting, literature, cinema, photography. In particular, painting, in its century-old dialectic relationship with photomechanical art, especially availed itself of photography. Aldo Borgonzoni developed this practice in the Medicina countryside with the photographer Enrico Pasquali.