Photographic panoramas, often mass-reproduced on black-and-white or colorized postcards, provided sweeping views of the Turin Exposition. These panoramas showcased the Exposition's sheer scale, allowing viewers to share the photographer's comprehensive gaze over the Valentino Park's iconic fairgrounds, with its crowds, celebratory events, exhibits, and memorable architectural structures. This gaze, mediated by the camera's lens, typically controlled the fairgrounds from above, thus subtly connecting visual culture and cultural power. With the development of photography, panoramas became the technological expression of a specifically modern view of the world--one that represented modernity's desire for visual, and by extension geographical and political, control over that world. 

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